Introducing 

Prezi AI.

Your new presentation assistant.

Refine, enhance, and tailor your content, source relevant images, and edit visuals quicker than ever before.

Loading…
Transcript

Special Ed. Timeline

Brown v. Board of Education (1954)

Brown v. Board of Ed. (1954)

  • Incredible breakthrough in education system
  • Ruled that segregation in schools was inherently inequal
  • Many remember this as dealing with race but extremely helped with students with disabilities in schools
  • Started the movement for more disability rights to follow

Image

Education for all handicapped children act (1975)

Education for all handicapped children act (1975)

  • An act that for years to come was built off of with new ammendments
  • Purpose was to gurantee a free public education to students with any disability
  • Assured effectiveness, protected these children and parents rights, and to help states with funding

Image

Burlington School Committee v. Mass. Bd. of Ed., 471 U. S. 359 (1985)

  • First time parents get reimbursed for private special education
  • Schools may be required to give reimbursents for inadequate education and failure to uphold IEPs.
  • Parents are allowed to participate in the development of an IEP

Burlington Sch. Committee v. Mass. Bd. of Ed., 471 U. S. 359 (1985)

Individuals with disabilities act (IDEA 1990)

  • A reauthorization of the previous instatement of this act
  • Push to expand the classroom environments to less restrictive for special ed.
  • Plans to integrate these children into neighborhood communities

Image

Americans with disabilities act (1990)

  • Prohibits discrimination among those with disabilities in all aspects of life
  • Required closed captioning of federal announcements
  • Allows for my job employment without facing discriminants
  • A civil rights law

Image

Florence County School District Four v. Shannon Carter, 510 U.S. 7 (1993)

  • The case of Shannon Carter, a disabled 9th grader receiving an inadequate IEP
  • Her parents had to place her in a private school that had specialized education
  • Courts ruled this breached IDEA promise of a free appropriate public education
  • Therefore, parents will receive any reimbursent if required to go to a private school

No Child Left Behind (2001)

No Child Left Behind Act (2001)

  • Provided more funding to low income schools
  • Required teachers to meet specified education requirements to teach a grade or subject
  • Benchmarks placed to measure student growth or progress
  • Students with disabilities to take the same test with specialized modifications

Image

Schaffer v. Weast (2005)

  • Supreme Court ruled that the burden of proof in a due process hearing that challenges an IEP rest on the parent.
  • This decision was quickly reversed after many petitioners

Schaffer v. Weast (2005)

Improving Head Start for School Readiness Act (2007)

  • Originally a program for those with particularly low income but received an upgrade
  • Gained more funding to include 35% more participants
  • Enforced that all students with special needs will be served

Image

Board of Ed. of City School Dist. of New York v. Tom F., 552 U.S. 1 (2007):

Board of Ed. of City School Dist. of New York v. Tom F., 552 U.S. 1 (2007):

  • Affirmed that students have the right to free appropriate public education
  • Debated if IDEA provides reimbursent for private school when a students hasn't previously attended a public school
  • Judges split votes equally so it is a still topic for discussion that if a student refuses the public school if they will receive reimbursment
Learn more about creating dynamic, engaging presentations with Prezi