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Brown vs. Board of Education
Because of a certain outcome that the Supreme Court had,segregation or racial education had violated a chance for equal opportunity. -
Elementary and Secondary Education Act
President Lyndon B. Johnson constructs the Elementary and Secondary Education Bill that will later become law. -
The Family Educational Rights Act of 1973
Parents of children are allowed to have access to all personally identifiable information collected, maintained y the school districts in regards to that parents child. -
Education of the Deaf Act
This act calls for a residential facility for post secondary training as well as education for those individuals who have hearing impairments (are deaf) in order to prepare them for employment. -
Individuals with Disability Act
This particular act,also known as the Education for All Handicap Children Act, controls how all states and certain businesses provide services for special education children with disabilities. This act also mentions the educational needs of those children with disabilities, from birth to age 18 or 21, depending on the disability. -
The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act Amendments of 1997
There was a re-authorization of IDEA, and this was sought to be a new chance to review, to fortify and improve IDEA having a better chance to educate children with disabilities allowing them reach a quality level of education that they need and deserve. To achieve this, Congress had to make sure that the curriculum would be available as well as aiming for a focused and learning environment and reducing the amount of paper work that was unnecessary. -
No Child Left Behind Act
This act required the states to create assessments, subject in basic skill and that to be given to all students only of certain grades. Only and if those states receive federal funding for their schools. -
IDEA 2004 Reinactment/Improvement Act
This reinactment of IDEA served a purpose, specifically for special education. It states that children with a disability must be provided with a Free Appropriate Public Education (FAPE) that will arrange them for their further education, future employment as well as independent living. -
Arlington Central School District Board of Education vs. Murphy
This event had re-concluded that the school board must pay for private schooling for those students who have disabilities and must be in accordance with the IDEA. -
American with Disabilities Act Amendment of 2008
This act being named "the most significant legislation ever passed" by the National Council on Disability, the ADA Amendments looked over the true definition of "disability" and said it to be more allowing of impairments that considerably limit a major life activity.
