Important Dates in Special Education

  • Requiring Students to Attend School

    Requiring Students to Attend School

    Before this time there was no law that manadated that kids go to school on a regular after this law teachers and parents began recognozing that students had varrying needs
  • Brown v. Board of Education

    Brown v. Board of Education

    Racial discrimination in public schools was unlawful. This was the case for students that are minoritioes including race, gender, creed, and disabiliites. This lead parents to also seek some similar liberties for chilfren with disabilities. This included not being able to deny admittance into public schools based on disability.
  • Free Public Education

    Free Public Education

    The court ruled that students with disabilities must be given a public education even if the students are unable to pay for the cost of the education. Creation of the IEP
  • Rehabilitation Act of 1973

    Rehabilitation Act of 1973

    The Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as Amended (Rehab Act) prohibits discrimination on the basis of disability in programs conducted by federal agencies, in programs receiving federal financial assistance, in federal employment and in the employment practices of federal contractors.
  • Education for all Handicap Children

    Education for all Handicap Children

    https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/94/s6
    Found that all peoples can benefit from training and should be allowed the same opportunities as their same age peers. If students can not be in the same class as peers their seperate class should be evaluated on a regular basis.
  • Pennsylvania Association for Retarded Children v. Commonwealth of Pennslyvania

    Pennsylvania Association for Retarded Children v. Commonwealth of Pennslyvania

  • Individuals with Disabilities Education Act

    Individuals with Disabilities Education Act

    https://sites.ed.gov/idea/
    These new laws added ten adaptations including changes to general education,state assessment, transistion planing, assistive technology, and related services.
  • Amendments to IDEA

    Amendments to IDEA

    Requires that each state have procedures for Free and Appropriate Education for Student with Disabiliites
  • No Child Left Behind

    No Child Left Behind

    https://youtu.be/0--2nhsDorg
    No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) is a federal law that provides money for extra educational assistance for poor children in return for improvements in their academic progress. NCLB is the most recent version of the 1965 Elementary and Secondary Education Act.
  • 2004 IDEA

    2004 IDEA

    Now to include No Child Left Behind , Parent Participation, Least restictive Enviornment.