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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4okt6u6OEkg Elementary and Secondary Education Act was passed by president Lyndon B. Johnson’s and congress. The act funded primary and secondary education. The act gives low income families equal educational opportunities. It provides support and equal rights to children who attend public schools.
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The Rehabilitation Act of 1973 is the federal law that authorizes the formula grant programs for vocational rehabilitation, supported employment, independent living, and client assistance. It also authorizes a variety of training and service discretionary grants administered by the Rehabilitation Services Administration. The Rehabilitation Act authorizes research activities that are administered by the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research.
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Education Amendments of 1972 also sometimes known as the Higher Education Amendments of 1972(Public Law No. 92 318, 86 Stat. 235) was U.S. legislation enacted June 23, 1972.[1] It is best known for its Title IX, which prohibited discrimination on the basis of sex in educational institutions receiving federal aid. It also modified government programs providing financial aid to students by directing monies directly to students without the participation of intermediary financial institutions.
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https://www2.ed.gov/policy/speced/leg/idea/history.html Congress enacted the Education for All Handicapped Children Act (Public Law 94-142), in 1975, to support states and localities in protecting the rights of, meeting the individual needs of, and improving the results for Hector and other infants, toddlers, children, and youth with disabilities and their families.
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Extends free and appropriate education to children with disabilities (ages 3-5), establishes early intervention for infants/ toddlers with disabilities (ages birth to 2).
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Prohibits discrimination in the private sector and protects equal employments opportunities for people with disabilities, includes AIDS as a disability
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Replaces EAHCA, establishes person-first language, expands special education services and provisions for due process and confidentiality, adds autism and traumatic brain injury categories, provides bilingual education, requires transition services and planning
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Requires students with disabilities to receive services even if expelled, allows use of developmental delay category through age 9, requires access to general education curriculum and state/district-wide testing, IEP team includes a general education teacher and a behavior plan (if warranted), offers mediation options, limits attorneys fees
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Increases accountability and flexibility in use of federal funds, offers school choice options, implements early reading intervention
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Allows RTI model to determine presence of a learning disability and no longer requires use of the severe discrepancy model, increases funding to early intervention services for students who do not require special education, eliminates IEP short-term objectives for some students, raises special education licensure standards, adopts polices to prevent over-representation of minority students in special education
