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Supreme Court rules that segregation in public schools is unconstitutional
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Provided state federal money to states in order to improve opportunities for student who were disadvantaged.
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Provided state grants to help expand education programs for childrem with disabilities. Schools were also given Federal government money to help train special education teachers better.
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Title IX is a comprehensive federal law that prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex in any federally funded education program or activity.
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It is unconstitutional to deny students with disabilities an education.
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Required schools to provide a Free Appropriate Public Education (FAPE)
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Prohibited discrimination against those with disabilities in programs that received federal funding.
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Federal funding was provided to those who promised to educate students with disabilities. School are also required to develop an Individualized Education Plan (IEP)
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They added traumatic brain injury and autism as new catagoreies of disabilities.
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Standardized testing began. They began holding government responsible for the gains for students learning.
