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Brown vs. Board of Education
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The Civil Rights Act of 1964
Authorized by the commissioner of education to outlaw the discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin, ending unequal application of voter registration requirements and racial segregation in schools at the work place and by facilities that served the general public. -
Title VI
Congress adds Title 6 to the Elementary and Secondary Education act of 1965 creating a Bureau of Education for the Handicapped. Special education was still not mandated but showed improvement. -
Section 504
Rehabilitation Act of 1973. Enacted into statute to protect qualified individuals from discrimination based on their disability. -
FERPA
The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act is enacted. Parents are allowed to have access to all personally identifiable information collected, maintained, or used by a school district regarding their child. -
Education for all Handicapped Children Act
EAHCA Also known as PL 94-142, mandated all school districts to educate students with disabilities. -
Rowley vs. Board of Education
School had been denying the right of having an interpreter because of success in school. The judge had decided that the school district was denying this student of FAPE and granted the student the proper accommodations. -
Timothy vs. Rochester New Hampshire School District
Timothy W. was a student diagnosed with cerebral palsy, and was denied FAPE in school, denying his basic rights of special education services to a disabled student such as Timothy, regardless of the severity of his or her disability. -
The Americans with Disabilities Act
Adopting the Section 504 regulations as part of the ADA for individual students starting to become a more common place in school districts. -
IDEA
The EAHCA was amended to become the more updated version, known as the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). One of the biggest changes was the addition of transition services for students with disabilities. -
IDEA Reauthorized
Following the reauthorization of the IDEA, students with disabilities to be included in on the state and district wide assessments, and regular education teachers are now required to attend IEP meetings. -
NCLB
No Child Left Behind calls for all students, including students with disabilities, to be proficient in math and reading by the year 2014. -
IDEIA
The Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act is a federal law that provides partial funding to states to educate the nation's more than 6 million students receiving special education services, and outlines procedural safeguards. -
IDEA Reauthorized
There are multiple changes from the original 1997 reauthorization. One of the more important changes was the call for more accountability at the state and local levels, as more data on the outcomes is required. Another change involves school districts providing adequate instruction and intervention for students to help keep them out of special education. -
Forest Grove School District vs. T.A.
Court upheld that parents of disabled children are able to be reimbursed for expenses where a public school fails to do so according to FAPE. -
Rosa's Law
President Obama signed Rosa's law to change references in federal law from "Mental Retardation" to "Intelectual Disability" and references to "a Mentally Retarded Individual" to "an Individual with a Intelectual Disability" -
ESSA
Every Student Succeeds Act is an updated version of NCLB.