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Beattie v. Board of Education
In 1919 Beattie petitioned the Supreme court for admittance into the school system. "being afflicted with a form of paralysis which affects his whole physical and nervous make up. He was denied - even though he could keep up with the other students academically. -
Buck v. Bell 1927
Buck v. Bell, 274 U.S. 200 (1927), is a decision of the United States Supreme Court in which the Court ruled that a state statute permitting compulsory sterilization of the unfit, including the intellectually disabled, "for the protection and health of the state" did not violate the Due Process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. The decision was largely seen as an endorsement of negative eugenics—the attempt to im -
Brown v. the Board of Education
Brown v. Board of Education, 347 U.S. 483 (1954), was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional. This famous case is significant to the education of disabled children because it set precedence for future cases against prohibiting the handicapped in the school system. -
Welfare v. Haas
illinois said they were not responsible to provide public education to the mentally retarded which lead to the Public Law 94-142 act. -
Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA)
Addressed the inequality of educational opportunity for underprivileged children. This landmark legislation provided resources to help ensure that disadvantaged students had access to quality education. -
Mills v. Board of Education of District of Columbia
Mills involved the practice of suspending, expelling and excluding children with disabilities from the District of Columbia public schools. The school district’s primary defense in Mills was the high cost of educating children with disabilities. After PARC and Mills, Congress launched an investigation into the status of children with disabilities and found that millions of children were not receiving an appropriate education: -
PARC v. the commonwealth of PA
Pennsylvania Association for Retarded Children (PARC) sued the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania for a state law that allowed public schools to deny education to certain children, namely those who had not “attained a mental age of 5 years”. A U.S. District Court Judge Masterson gave a consent decree deeming the former laws unconstitutional and tasking the State with providing a free public education to all. -
Congress enacts Public Law 94-142
Education for all handicapped children act -
Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act
In reauthorizing the IDEA, Congress increased the focus on accountability and improved outcomes by emphasizing reading, early intervention, and research-based instruction by requiring that special education teachers be highly qualified.