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Elementary and Secondary Education Act
This act funds primary and secondary education, emphasizing high standards and accountability. As mandated in the act, funds are authorized for professional development, instructional materials, resources to support educational programs, and the promotion of parental involvement. -
Vocational Rehabilitation Act
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This act requires the federal government to actively hire and promote workers with disabilities and prohibits discrimination in federally funded programs. It also requires federal electronic and information technology to be accessible to people with disabilities, including employees and members of the public and requires federal government contractors to actively hire people with disabilities. -
The Education For All Handicapped Children Act
This act required all public schools accepting federal funds to provide equal access to education and one free meal a day for children with physical and mental disabilities. -
Honig v. Doe Case
In this case, 2 students were suspended and were waiting expulsion from their schools for disruptive and destructive behavior due to their disabilities. This case stated that the Supreme Court further held that the "stay-put" provision of the Education of the Handicapped Act prohibited state or local school authorities from excluding disabled children from the classroom even for dangerous or disruptive conduct resulting from their disabilities. -
Individuals with Disabilities Education Act
This act ensures students with a disability are provided with free appropriate public education that is tailored to their individual needs.
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Americans with Disabilities Act
This act requires employers to make reasonable accommodations for applicants or employees with disabilities, should they be qualified to perform the job expectations with them and the standards for equal opportunities extend through education, public accommodation, and public transportation.
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Cedar Rapids v. Garret F Case
This Supreme Court case was filed because a student required a wheelchair and ventilator as well as help with personal needs during school. The case decision was that if the services in question are "related" to keeping the child with disabilities in school and able to access educational opportunities available to others IDEA funded school districts must provide such services. -
No Child Left Behind Act
Enacted to provide a framework “on how to improve the
performance of America’s elementary and secondary
schools while at the same time ensuring that no child is
trapped in a failing school”
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Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act
Allows RTI model to determine presence of a learning disability
and no longer requires use of the severe discrepancy model,
increases funding to early intervention services for students
who do not require special education, eliminates IEP short term objectives for some students, raises special education
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Every Student Succeeds Act
Requires states to select at least one other factor to evaluate schools than text score from the students such as student engagement, educator engagement, school climate/safety, or other relative things that make sense. Teachers are evaluated by states rather than schools, and low performing schools still must be fixed the same way.
