History
This Supreme Court case ruled that racial segregation in public schools is unconstitutional under the 14th Amendment
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
The Americans with Disabilities Act is this type of law.
What is a civil rights law?
Section 504 is this type of law.
What is a civil law?
The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act is this type of law.
What is an entitlement law?
ESSA is the main federal K-12 education law that applies to these.
What are all students?
This Supreme Court case established the right to education for children with disabilities, specifically focusing on cognitive (intellectual) disabilities.
What is PARC v. Commonwealth of PA?
The ADA prohibits discrimination against people with disabilities these settings.
What are in employment, public services, accommodations, and more?
Section 504 prohibits discrimination against individuals with disabilities in programs that receive this.
What are federal funds?
This part of IDEA details assistance for ages 3-21.
What is Part B?
Every Student Succeeds Act emphasized accountability for all students, including those with this.
What are disabilities?
This Supreme Court case extended PARC principles to all disability types.
What is Mills v. Board of Education of D.C.?
In a school setting, Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act applies to these people.
Who are students, parents/guardians, visitors, and employees?
Section 504 defines "individual with a disability" in this way.
What is "qualified individuals with a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities, or who have a record of such an impairment, or who are regarded as having such an impairment?"
IDEA expanded federal disability categories to include these disabilities.
The Every Student Succeeds Act caps alternate assessments to this amount of students.
What is 1%?
This law provided federal funding for education of disadvantaged students as part of the ‘War on Poverty.’
What is the Elementary and Secondary Education Act?
In these two ways, the Americans with Disabilities Act Amendments Act broadened disability definition.
What are include episodic conditions and ignore mitigating measures?
Students with this document are automatically protected under Section 504 because qualifying under IDEA meets the broader disability definition in Section 504.
What is an IEP?
Unlike Section 504 and ADA, IDEA requires schools to provide these services to students who qualify for special education services.
What are transition planning and related services?
ESSA replaced this.
What is No Child Left Behind (NCLB)?
This law mandated FAPE, IEPs, LRE, and due process for ages 5-21.
What is the Education for All Handicapped Children Act?
These are the two main obligations of ADA Title II for public schools.
What are Program Accessibility and Nondiscrimination?
Name two of the primary responsibilities of public school districts under Section 504.
To prohibit discrimination on the basis of disability
To provide a free appropriate public education (FAPE) to qualified students
To offer reasonable accommodations
The Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act introduced this new way to identify students with disabilities.
What is Response to Intervention (RtI)?
These are two of the major principles of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA).
Gives states and districts flexibility in accountability, teacher evaluation, and school improvement while requiring high academic standards for all students, annual assessments, disaggregated data reporting by subgroups, and targeted interventions in low-performing schools.