Journalist – Historian – Speaker
Yesterday I wrote on the Endrew F. v Douglas County decision from the Supreme Court. It’s powerful and could make a real difference in special education in this country. In the meantime, though, even as the decision was being handed down, ADAPT (a direct action disability rights group) was occupying the Capitol Rotunda, chanting, and …
Over a year ago I wrote about problems with the ABLE Act, the well-intentioned bill that the divide-and-conquer wing of the GOP was tweaking into semi-irrelevancy. It passed with a definition of disability that only included those disagnosed before age 26, a sign of the way too many politicians like to differentiate between the worthy …
ABLE is likely to become law in the next few weeks, offering new tax-free savings accounts for people with disabilities. Here’s my article on the bill. Here’s the current language in the House with off-sets (who knew you could save 444 million by not funding erection pumps via medicaid?). Here’s a piece saying that Senator …