It’s hard to believe that it wasn’t until the mid-1970s thatchildren with disabilities even had the right to attend publicschool. Conferred only after several ground-breaking Supreme Courtcases, and the passage of The Education for All HandicappedChildren Act of 1975 (the EHA), this right entitled access to enterthrough the school’s doors. There was little in the Supreme Courtrulings or the EHA to indicate that children with disabilities hadthe right to receive a quality education.

In 1982, with the Supreme Court’s decision in Board of Education v. Rowley, we as a nationtook some steps toward addressing the issue of educational qualityfor children with disabilities.

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