Thesis

PARC v. Pennsylvania:

Pioneering the Right to Education for Children with Cognitive Impairments



Classroom integrated by disabled students: Courtesy of the New York Times, 1978

In 1971, the Pennsylvania Association for Retarded Children (PARC) brought a class action lawsuit against The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, challenging the exclusion of cognitively impaired children from public schools. This case was a frontier in the disability rights movement as it established the right to a free and appropriate program of education for all cognitively impaired children.


Alexandra Lay, Harry Liu, and Spencer Carman

PARC v. Pennsylvania: Pioneering the Right to Education for Children with Cognitive Impairments

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