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Special Education Day: The law that transformed education for children with disabilities
Fifty years ago, just after Thanksgiving of 1975, President Gerald Ford signed the Education for All Handicapped Children Act, the landmark law that created special education as it exists today, and ...
Education Week: 50 Years of IDEA: 4 Things to Know About the Landmark Special Education Law
Fifty years ago, Congress dramatically expanded schools’ responsibilities when it passed the nation’s primary special education law, requiring children with disabilities to receive a “free appropriate ...
50 Years of IDEA: 4 Things to Know About the Landmark Special Education Law
Education Week: How One Lawyer Helped Reshape Special Education at the Supreme Court
A new documentary is shining fresh attention on a major special education ruling the U.S. Supreme Court decided last term, spotlighting the lawyer who not only won that case but has played a role in ...
OPB: Washington will offer special education to students longer under new law
A new law triggered by a lawsuit will ensure public school students in Washington are offered special education instruction until they are 22 years old. A new law in Washington will assure students ...
Families of children in special education classes scored a big win in court this month after New Jersey officials agreed to better uphold the rights of parents battling public school districts over ...