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PARC vs Commonealth Of Pennsylvania 1971
the first right-to-education suit in the country, to overturn that Pennsylvania law and secure a quality education for all children. The case quickly settled before the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pa., resulting in a consent decree in which the state agreed to provide a free public education for children with mental retardation -
Mills vs Board of Education, District of Columbia 1972
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. -
Rehabilitation Act of 1973 ‐ Section 504
Civil rights law that prohibits discrimination against individuals with disabilities by entities that receive federal funds and ensures that a child with a disability has equal access to educational activities. -
Education for All Handicapped Children Act of 1975. EHA becomes stand‐alone law and basis for Federal funding of special education
Mandated a free appropriate public education for all
children with disabilities, ensured due process rights, and mandated IEPs and LRE. -
Honing vs Doe
that a California school board had violated the Education for All Handicapped Children Act (EAHCA; later the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act) when it indefinitely suspended a student for violent and disruptive behavior that was related to his disability. -
Timothy W. vs Rochester, New Hampshire
under the Education for All Handicapped Children Act (EAHCA; now the Individuals with Disabilities Act [IDEA]), school boards were required to provide special-education services to any disabled student regardless of the severity of his or her disabilities. -
, Education of the Handicapped Act Amendments of 1990. Renamed as the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA).
Reauthorized and expanded discretionary programs,
mandated transition services, defined assistive technology devices and services, and added autism and
traumatic brain injury to the list of disability categories. -
No Child Left Behind Act of 2001
a law that applies to not only special needs students, but all students within the United States. NCLB requires that students from 3rd to 8th grade (including an additional year in high school) take an annual government designed assessment in mathematics and reading -
Individuals with Disabilities Education Act of 2004
Attempted to align IDEA with the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), provided definition of highly qualified special education teacher,
expanded dispute resolution options, established NIMAS and NIMAC to provide access to instructional materials, allowed IDEA funds to be used for early intervening services to serve students not IDEA eligible, ensured services for students attending private schools, homeless and highly mobile. -
Endrew F. vs Douglas County School District
the justices unanimously ruled that, under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), public school students with disabilities are entitled to greater benefits than some lower courts had determined.