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Special Education Timeline
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Plessy v. Furguson
Laws providing for "separate but equal" treatment of blacks and whites were constitutional. -
Brown v. Board of Education Topeka
Brown v. Board of Education was the culmination of changes in the Civil Rights Movement. The Civil Rights Movement and Brown v. Board of Education decision which extended equal protection under the law to minorities, paving the way for similar gains for those with disabilities. -
Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965
$11-billion-a-year Act has been sending federal assistance to poor schools, communities, and children for nearly 30 years. -
Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA)
Helps protect the privacy of student education records. The Act provides for the right to inspect and review education records, the right to seek to amend those records and to limit disclosure of information from the records. -
Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)
The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) is a federal law in the United States that governs how states and public agencies provide special education services to children with learning disabilities.
It addresses the educational needs of children with disabilities from the time they are born to the age of 21 and includes 13 specified disabilities. -
No Child Left Behind, 2001
latest version of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), the major federal education law that was first enacted in 1965. Title 1 of the ESEA provides the single largest source of federal funding for public schools. No Child Left Behind builds upon education reform efforts that started during the Clinton Administration with the passage of Goals 2000 and the Improving America's Schools Act in 1994.
