The decision kicked off decades of debates over discrimination and educational access in communities across the nation. The ...

“This is a set of standards that generations of disabled people and disabled children have relied on,” said Claudia Center, legal director of the Disability Rights Education & Defense ...

A fierce advocate and member of Human Rights ... movement and leading to the creation of the American with Disabilities Act. Judy’s work ensured people with disabilities had access to education ...

Things like visual schedules, movement breaks ... Besides Disability Rights Watch, I’d recommend these two educational policy trackers: Department of Education Tracker, and Fighting for My ...

James LeBrecht moved to the cradle of the disabled rights movement as a young man. After graduating from UC San Diego in 1978, he was drawn to Berkeley where the first Center for Independent Living ...

The order, which President Trump may sign on Thursday, will lay the groundwork for eventually shuttering the agency, ...

U.S. President Donald Trump is aiming to eliminate an entire federal government department focused on education, to the ...

Deuba emphasized that Nepal's experience has shown that only democracy can safeguard the rights ... education, health, employment, and an easy livelihood for persons with disabilities," he said ...

Then there is the Education Department ... And all of these threats can be ameliorated because the disability rights movement has — haltingly, with many setbacks and disagreements — forced ...

Judy Heumann, who has been called the “mother of the disability rights movement, has died at 75. Heumann, who lost her ability to walk at age 2 after contracting polio, lobbied for legislation ...

Diversity, equity and inclusion has become highly politicized — and there’s no standard definition for what it is.