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The case of PARC (Pennsylvania Association for Retarded Children) v. The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (343 F. Supp. 279 (E.D. Pa. 1972)) occurred as a result of the dissatisfaction of PARC regarding the conditions of services being provided for students (children) with disabilities. This paper provides an overview of the current literature on this topic and references a variety of sources. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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regarding the conditions of services being provided for students (children) with disabilities. It was initially recognized that different services were being provided for children with disabilities in Pennsylvania
and that the services being provided for children were not of the same quality as programming for children in the public school setting. This case occurred following the Brown
v. Board of Education Supreme Court case in which individual challenged the concept of the "separate but equal" allowance for educational settings based on race. A number of years
later, educators would consider this premise in the creation of educational planning for children with disabilities and would call for change that has set the precedent for Special Education programming
and support services in the public school setting. This court case occurred prior to the implementation of the Education of the Handicapped Act of 1975, in which schools could not
deny access to educational services for children with physical or cognitive handicaps (Kraft). In fact, researches have argued that the focus of this case, which defined a need for
a response to particular inequities for the students with disabilities, was one of two cases that set the stage for the Education of Handicapped Act of 1975 (Kraft).
The basic arguments presented suggest that attorneys for the plaintiffs found that the defendants had in fact applied specific school district and regional laws to exclude students with significant physical
or mental handicaps from entering the school system. In fact, the outcomes of this case systematically outlined why certain educational legalities allowed for the exclusion of children with handicaps
from the traditional educational setting. The following are some of these acts: * Section 1304 of the Public School Code of 1949, 24 Purd. Stat. Sec. 13-1304 * Section
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