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Brown V. Board of Education
The Supreme Court ruled it was illegal practice under the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution to discriminate subjectivly against any single group.
*First major change to American public schools to provide services to all American children -
The Teachers of the Deaf Act
Provided training for teachers to work with students who were hard of hearing or deaf.
One of the first programs designed to work with individuals with disabilities. -
The Elementary and Secondary Education Act
Granted funds to states to help educate children with disabilities
Most significant step of the century to provide help for all school children within the public education system. -
Handicapped Children's Early Education Assistance Act
Funded preschool and early childhood intervetion for children with disabilities. -
The Education for All Handicapped Children Act
Established a rigth to public education for all children regardless of disability, and required all schools in states that accept any federal funds for education to provide a special education for students with qualifying disabilities.
Emphasized continuum of services and least restrictive environment for students with disabilities. -
Individuals with Disabilities Act
Reauthroization of the Education for All Handicapped Children Act-requirement that students with disabilities participate in statewide assessments and accountability procedures, pressures inclusion over any other placement; full inclusion co-teaching became the preferred service delivery model for all students with disabilities. -
No Child Left Behind
The reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act; require all public schools, who recieve federal funding, administer a statewide standardized assessment to all students.
Brought forth by the emphasis of full inclusion and standards-based education provisions. -
Individuals with Disabilities Improvement Act (IDEIA)
This law mandated equaliity, accountability, and excellence in education for children with disabilities. Coincides with the passing of No Child Left Behind in 2001
Students with disabilities have access to their nondisabled peers and to everything in the general education curriculum, but also to the general education teachers whom are fully qualified to teach the curriculum.