History of Special Education

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    History of Special Education

  • Advocacy of Special Education

    Advocacy groups fight to set up Special Education clases fo marginalized students

  • Special Education teacher Training

    Family advocacy group pressure leads to training programs to teach educatos to work with students with disabilities

  • Bureau for Education of the Handicapped is estabished

  • 1st Legislation

    Racial inequity concerns lead to IDEA, Individuals with Disabilities Education Act

  • Supreme Court Rulings

    2 rulings, in favour of PARC and Mills, determine that all students with disabilities have the same right to education as their no disabled peers

  • Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act

    This coves studens an parent fo discriiation due to disabilites

  • Reauthorization of IDEA

    Efffrts made to avoid compounding issues by misreprsenting disabilities and to hel reduce drop otof stdents I Special Ed. programs

  • No Child Left Behind

    Added further accountability for chools ad geve tech assistance and loans to schools requiring help with Special Education

  • IDEA is reauthorized

    Districts must monitor disproportionality o ethnic groups inSpecil Education classes. Local Educational Authoritis should use maximum allowed funds to intervene in these situations