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Brown v. Board of Education
This court case lead the way for integration among public schools, "separate but equal" no longer stood. This ruling clearly defines that children cannot be exluded from school based on exceptionalities.
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Mills v. Board of Education of the District of Columbia
A class action suit filed by seven students' parents that were denied an education due to an exceptionaility. The aftermath of this case is that all children have a right to a free public education regardless of exceptionalities.
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Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act
Section 504 guarantees services to people with exceptionalities if their exceptionality limits one or more major life activities (ie. schooling) This mandated accomodations within schools and society.
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EHA: Education for All Handicapped Children
EHA was designed to ensure that all students with disabilities get an appropriate and free education in the least restrictive environment; which means that all children are taught together to the maximum extent.
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Rowley v Hendrick Hudson School District
This case is about a little girl that is deaf and needed extra assistance in her classroom, when she was denied her parents sued. This was one of the first cases to contend the Education for All Handicapped Children Act and played a part in defining what "an appropriate education" should look like.
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EHA (reauthorized)
The ammendments to the EHA were made to include infants and toddlers to receive services and add the requirement of an IFSP (Individualized Family Service Plan).
Reference: Wood text -
Doe v. Withers
Supreme court case in which a teacher failed to carry out an IEP as detailed by the IEP team. The implications: teachers are responsible to carry out the assistance and accomodations laid out in the a students' IEP.
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No Child Left Behind Act of 2001
NCLB requires states to develop standards and test students annually based on those standards. Students with exceptionalities participate in these tests and disctricts are held accountable for test scores.
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IDEA '04 (reauthorized)
The reauthorization of IDEA added many provisions, including; highly qualified teachers, identification procedures, and accomodation of state wide tests for students with exceptionalities.
References: Bryant handout
