Special Education Timeline

By jgeiselman

  • Title XI

    Congress adds Title VI to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 creating a Bureau of Education for the Handicapped

  • PARC v. Pennsylvania (1972) and Mills v. D.C. Board of Education (1972)

    PARC v. Pennsylvania (1972) and Mills v. D.C. Board of Education (1972) Applied the equal protection arguement to students with disabilities

  • Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973

    Protects qualified individuals from descrimination based on their disabilities

  • The Education for All Handicapped Children Act

    EAHCA mandated all school districts to educate students with disabilities.

  • The Americans with Disabilities Ac

    “504 Plans” for individual students start to become more common place in school districts.