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History of Special Education Timeline

  • IDEA-Brown vs. Board of Education Timeline

    IDEA-Brown vs. Board of Education Timeline

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    In Brown vs Board of Education helped African American students to have an equal education as white students in Topeka Kansas. In Topeka Kansas, Linda Brown was denied the right to attend an all white school, even though the school was very close to her home and for that reason her father filed a law suite against Topeka school district for equal rights for black children to be able to attend any school that they choose.
  • IDEA-The Elementary and Secondary Education Act

    IDEA-The Elementary and Secondary Education Act

    Lyndon B. Johnson signed a Law for "War on Poverty", which called for equal access to all children in poverty. This law helps children to have equal access for funding primary and secondary education.
  • PARC vs Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

    PARC vs Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

    Allowed students with disabilities to be placed in public schools that funded their individual needs for their educational purposes to properly evaluate students with disabilities.
  • Mills v. Board of Education of the District of Columbia

    Mills v. Board of Education of the District of Columbia

    This helped fund children with mental and learning disabilities and behavioral issues to be publicly funded educational opportunities
  • Public Law 94-142 Education For All Handicapped Children Act

    Public Law 94-142 Education For All Handicapped Children Act

    This law is considered the a law that was put in place for all handicapped children to receive an equal education with disabilities who also was able to receive one free meal per day.
  • Public Law 99-457 An Amendment To All Handicapped Children Act

    Public Law 99-457 An Amendment To All Handicapped Children Act

    This law amended the handicapped children act that was enforced in 1975, which allows all families with children born with disabilities to receive an equal access to education without having to wait until three years old.
  • Handicapped Children’s Protection Act

    Handicapped Children’s Protection Act

    President Reagan signed the Handicapped Children’s Protection Act to allow parents of children with disabilities to have more involvement with the say of their child's development on their IEP.
  • Public Law 101-476 Education for All Handicapped Children Act

    Public Law 101-476 Education for All Handicapped Children Act

    This act created for outstanding changes to the Public Law 94-142 whereas children with traumatic brain injury and autism were added as new disabilities that were allowed in this act to receive on the IEP and/or ITP to transition into post and secondary life.
  • Individuals with Disabilities Education Act

    Individuals with Disabilities Education Act

    This act was formally The Education for all Handicapped Children's Act which President Clinton reauthorized IDEA to be amended in providing all students to access the same curriculum. This allowed "developmentally delayed" children from birth through five and from ages six through nine to have the same access as the general classroom curriculum.
  • New IDEA

    New IDEA

    Congress amended the IDEA. This required early intervention for students, more responsibility as well as better educational results. This also increased the standards for instructors who teach special education classes. It also required states to requested that local school districts rearrange their funding to 15% of their special education funds toward general education.