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Wichita Public Schools and the U.S. Department of Justice have reached a settlement after an investigation into Kansas’ largest school district uncovered race and disability discrimination in ...
Is a local school district mishandling its special education population? Stats show restraint and seclusion still used in NJ despite warnings. Discipline in schools infringes on NJ disability ...
Charles County Public Schools (CCPS) superintendent Maria V. Navarro wrote in a Dec. 5 statement that 11 students with disabilities and seven staff members visited the restaurant on Dec. 3. The ...
The Rehabilitation Act of 1973 prohibits any public institutions that receive federal funds from discriminating on the premise of disability. [4] Only two years later in 1975, the Education for All Handicapped Children Act was passed requiring public schools that accept federal funding to provide equal education and access to education for disabled children. [4]
The Supreme Court called disability discrimination rational in that hiring non-disabled employees would conserve scarce financial resources by avoiding the need for costly reasonable accommodations: "whereas it would be entirely rational (and therefore constitutional) for a state employer to conserve scarce financial resources by hiring ...
Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) prohibits discrimination on the basis of disability by state and local governmental entities, including public school districts. [30] Title III of the ADA also prohibits discrimination against students with disabilities in private schools that are considered public accommodations. [31]
Tarrant County commissioners approved a $225,000 settlement for a disability discrimination lawsuit, closing out a court case that began in 2021.
Aug. 26—Editor's Note: This is the second article of a two-part series about problems students have accessing disability accommodations at CU Boulder. The first article examined the difficulties ...