Special Education Day is 2 December. Apparently it is a celebration of the day that US President Gerald Ford signed Public Law 94-142, the Education of All Handicapped Children Act, into law. The Education of All Handicapped Children Act became the Education of All Handicapped Act and then the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, the name by which it is still known at the time I’m writing this.
There is a Web site, Special Education Day, dedicated to the day. It refers to the celebration of day in Massachusetts, an article in Education Week and the speech that President Ford gave when he signed the law.
By the way, the domain name for Special Education Day is quite similar to the domain name for this site. I named this site after a newsletter that Dan Hallahan, Jim Kauffman, and I published in the mid 1980s.
