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The
Brown decision led the way to a growing understanding that all
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Parents' unyielding efforts to get their children's educational needs addressed played a major role in the federal government's recognition of specific learning disability as a special education category in the late 1960s.
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On November 19, 1975, Congress enacted Public Law 94-142 in 1975, also known as The Education for All Handicapped Children Act of 1975.
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President Reagan signed the Handicapped Children’s Protection Act, a law that gave parents of children with disabilities more say in the development of their child’s Individual Education Plan, or IEP.
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The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) gives civil rights protections to individuals with disabilities
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Revisions to EHA (Education for all Handicapped Children) became IDEA. IDEA emphasized the use of individual education plans, or IEPs, for all special education students.
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No Child Left Behind focuses on closing student achievement gaps by providing all children with a fair, equal, and significant opportunity to obtain a high-quality education.
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Under the 2002 law, states are required to test students in reading and math in grades 3–8 and once in high school.
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The law was intended to clarify the scope of the definition of disability under the ADA
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Biden's budget request includes $16 billion for services provided to students in preschool through high school under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, an increase of $2.7 billion that the plan describes as a “significant first step toward fully funding IDEA.”