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In the early decades of the 20th Century, schools discriminated against students with disabilities by a) not allowing them in school if they had a disability and/or b) classifying students as having a disability when they did not have one.
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Brown v. Board of Education was a lawsuit to end segregation. The Supreme Court ruling that made it illegal to segregate schools was used to argue that schools can not segregate based on ability or disability.
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This was a lawsuit to reverse a state law that allowed schools to deny public education to students that had not reached a mental age of 5 years old. The lawsuit was successful and decreed that all students between the ages of 6 and 21, regardless of disability, were to get a free public education.
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The court ruled in favor of children getting a free public education in Washington D.C. Cited Brown v. Board of Education in making the decision.
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This act guaranteed transportation of all disabled people as well as students in school.
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Starting point for IDEA. Required all public schools that received federal funding to accept students with disabilities and give them a free public education as well as one free meal per day. It also required that schools perform evaluations on students to determine the disability and work with the parents to create an educational plan similar to the general education students.
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A lawsuit that resulted in an amendment for the Education for All Handicapped Children Act to allow parents to sue schools and to collect attorney's fees upon winning a case.
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Education of All Handicapped Children Act was renamed to Individuals with DisabilitiesEducation Act (IDEA)
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IDEA was reauthorized as an Act and has remained, largely unchanged, since.
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In 2004, IDEA was rewritten to comply with the No Child Left Behind Act. The rewritten act requires all special education teachers be highly qualified as well as having an assessment of the students with goals for the student as well.
