Historical Timeline of Special Education

By BugMama13

  • Brown v. Board of Education

    The segregation of students in public schools violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.

  • Pennsylvania Association for Retarded Children (P.A.R.C) v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

    The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania was sued over a law that denies free education who reached the age of eight but mentally had not reached the age of five in public schools.The P.A.R.C is now called the Arc of Pennsylvania.

  • Board of Education of the Hendrick Hudson Central School District v. Rowley

    The parents of Amy Rowley, who was a deaf student, made this case because Amy's school refused to provide an interpreter for her.

  • Timothy W. v. Rochester, New Hampshire, School District

    Ruled under the IDEA that school boards were required to provide disabled students special education students any services to provide for their needs regardless of the severity of their disabilities.