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This is was a Supreme Court Case that begin the understanding that all people regardless of race, gender, or disability would have the right to a public education.
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The Maternal and Child and Mental Retardation Planning Act had granted $265 million in federal aid for over five years to help support programs for the disabled.
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This law was signed by Lyndon B. Johnson and was a piece of legislation in the U.S. that outlawed major forms of discrimination against African Americans and women. It included racial segregation, ended unequal applications of voter regestration requirementss, and racial segregation in schools. It was the beginging of equal rights for all in education.
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This act funded primary and secondary education. It emphasizes equal access to education and establishes high standards and accountability.
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This case against the District of Columbia declared that studentss with disabilities must be given public education and that financial limitss were not an important point providing education to these students
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Parents are allowed to have access to all perssonally identificable information collected, maintained, or used by a school distirct regarding their own child.
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This amendment created two seperate, but related laws. One was the Education of the Handicapped Act Amendment of 1974, which was first to mention an appropriate education for all children with disabilities. The second law, the Family Education Rights and Privacy Act, gave parents and students over age 18 the right to examine records kept in the students personal file.
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The court ruled that the students who qualify for special education services must have access to public programs that meet their needs, and that the program must be supported by services that enable students to benefit from instruction.
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It makes clear that students and parents have rights under EAHCA which is now IDEA, and section 504.
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ADA is a wide range of civil rights laws that prohibit, under certain circumstances, discrimination based on disability.
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It required states to develop assessments in basic skills to be given to all students in certain grades.
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Special Education and related services should be designed to meet the unique learning needs of an eligible child with disabilites from the ages of 3 to 21.
