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This law mandates that school attendance is required for all people who are of age to attend. This law was originally places by the state of Massachusetts in 1852, but had been adopted by all other states by 1918 (Yell, 2016).
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This court case ruling stated that schools could refuse to serve students who had disabilities. This ruling showed that not all students were not required to attend public schools, but were instead referred to schools that might have more capabilities to deal with the disabilities (Yell, 2016).
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While this case is typically known for its role in the Civil Rights movement and not allowing schools to discriminate against those who were colored, it also addressed discrimination of students with disabilities. Due to the outcomes of this case, students with disabilities had the right to be in schools without being sent away (Yell, 2016).
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This law was signed as a part of the war on poverty in 1965.
It directed funding to directly help students with disabilities.
Originally passed in 1965 and amended in 1966 to include grants tor programs who were developing programs for the same groups (Yell, 2016). -
This was a class action suit that was brought by an advocacy group who wanted more for children who had disabilities. The case stated that students with disabilities were capable of learning, learning was not just limited to the average academic lessons taught, their education should be free like the general education students, and that the earlier these students started learning the better. While the court case was first in 1972, the effects of it were adopted into law in 1974 (Yell, 2016).
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Much like the PARC case, this court case showed that students with even severe disabilities had the right to education, and set up due process safeguards that eventually lead the way to the Education for All Handicapped Children Act. Originally passed in 1972 but effects were adopted into law in 1974 (Yell, 2016).
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The first federal civil rights law that protects those with disabilities and their rights. It states that if an agency or organization gets federal funds, then they must be inclusive to any person with a disability (Yell, 2016).
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This law put the educational bill of rights together with federal financing for students with disabilities. It set up the requirements for states to provide FAPE (free appropriate public education) and specific rights for those students who have disabilities. Amended in 1986 (Yell, 2016).
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IDEA is the same as the Education for All Handicapped Children Act, just renamed to Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. There were a few changes, such as changing handicapped to disability and setting up for transition planning in the students IEP. Originally passed in 1990, but has had updates that passed in 1997 and 2004 (Yell, 2016).
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This law took the same laws and rights to students with disabilities that were guaranteed in the Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act and applied it to all people with disabilities (Yell, 2016).