Segregation in MN
Minnesota remains highly segregated when it comes to adults with disabilities. Read this new Star Tribune report.
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The Attack on Olmstead
New at Pacific Standard: Right before Christmas, Jeff Sessions rolled back key disability rights protections. More is likely coming: What seems to be happening, according to Eve Hill and numerous other disability rights advocates to whom I spoke, is that the Sessions Department of Justice is siding with sheltered workshops. Sessions has a well-known general …
AL School Official: Segregate Disabled Students to Help Test Scores
From Alabama: Is it against the law for us to establish perhaps an academy on special education or something on that order,” asked Bell, “so that our scores that already are not that good would not be further cut down by special-ed’s test scores involved?” When Bell’s colleagues mentioned LRE, she didn’t seem to understand. …
Segregated Proms are Segregated
A segregated DC school throws a segregated prom and applauds itself for its segregation. Everyone in this story has nothing but good intent. They are working hard for their students. But this is the wrong attitude. “If we had these students in a conventional school, they’d probably sit in a corner and not engage, or …
A New Jim Crow: Disability and Racial Segregation in Georgia “Psychoeducational” Schools
This is a must read piece on the use of “psychoeducational” schools to segregate predominantly black children in Georgia from their peers. At age 7, David was too much for his teachers to handle. So they decided to send him to a special program — unique to Georgia — called a psychoeducational school. He was …