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Set a precedent for no more discrimination in public schools based on race and other factors
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The school's responsibility for students living in poverty showed how the school would be responsible for their minority students.
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Students with disabilities were finally getting federal funding to expand programs in schools.
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This created more state grants and resources for students with disabilities in schools and trained teachers for special education.
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Determined that it would be unconstitutional to deprive students with disabilities an education
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Determined that students with intellectual disabilities have a right to a free appropriate public education.
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Gave rights to people with disabilities in terms of discrimination in any type of program with federal funding
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Established more civil rights against discrimination
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Required schools to develop an IEP and provides federal funding to schools that facilitate a free appropriate public education
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Concluded that students with disabilities could not be evaluated solely on their IQ scores and must be assessed in a timely manner
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Addition of individual personal plans for students with disabilities
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Established students with disabilities' right to be served in public school regardless of their health impairments
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Gave parents the right to not have to pay for due process and ultimately gave them safeguards when advocating for their children
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Created federal financial incentives for educating younger children, birth-two years and three-five year olds.
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Stopped exclusion of students with disabilities in school for misbehavior
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Determined that a student has the right to inclusion to the maximum with least restrictive environments and free appropriate public education
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Added new disability categories, transition requirements, renamed EAHCA to be IDEA, and showed that states were not immune to lawsuits for violating IDEA
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Added new disciplinary provisions, IEP contests, and mediation between parents and the state before due process hearings
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Added "highly qualified" teachers, response-to-intervention models, removed short-term objectives from IEPs and prohibited states from requiring schools to use discrepancy formula
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Determined that under IDEA, the minimum is not enough
