This episode of the MacNeil/Lehrer Report covers the Education for All Handicapped Children Act. The United States Congress enacted the law in 1975, requiring US public schools to provide a free and appropriate education for children with academic, physical and/or emotional handicaps (disabilities). Jim Lehrer and Robert MacNeil interview children's rights advocates, human relation specialists and learning disability experts about how the Act should be implemented, while looking at the Cambridge-based Martin Luther King Junior School, whose own special education programs served as the model.
