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This law provided grants to improve science and math teaching in elementary schools. Four days after President Dwight Eisenhower signed the law, he signed Public Law 85–926 that provided financial support to colleges and universities to train leadership personnel in teaching children with disabilities. http://www.futureofchildren.org/publications/docs/06_01_01.pdf
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Congress expanded Public Law 85–926 that include grants to train college teachers and researchers in a broader realm of disabilities. http://www.futureofchildren.org/publications/docs/06_01_01.pdf
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The first major federal effort to subsidize direct services to selected
populations in public elementary and secondary schools, and it remains the primary vehicle for federal support of public schools today. Public Law 89-313 provided students with disabilities in state-funded and state-supported schools to be counted for entitlement purposes and Title 1 funds. -
Congress mandated a Bureau for the Education of the Handicapped under Title VI of the ESEA, which also provided grants to states to initiate, expand, or improve programs for educating children with disabilities. This program is popularly known as the "education for the handicapped act."
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Ensures that all children with disabilities in public schools will get one free meal each school day and will have access to an education. www.specialednews.com/special-education-dictionary/eha---education-for-all-handicapped-children-act.htm
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Legislation effective in 1982 required that 10% of each Head Start program’s enrollment be available to children with disabilities, without requiring these children to meet other Head Start eligibility criteria. http://www.futureofchildren.org/publications/docs/06_01_01.pdf
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Requires every state to have in effect policies and procedures to ensure FAPE for all students with disabilities. www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/oii/nonpublic/idea1.html
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Ensures services to children with disabilities throughout the nation. It governs how states provide early intervention, special education and related services. www.idea.ed.gov
