A federal law barring recipients of federal funding from discriminating based on disability doesn’t provide a private cause of action for retaliation claims, unlike other major anti-discrimination ...

Parents of students with disabilities have long seen federal civil rights complaints as their last, best hope of ensuring ...

Jazmyne Owens interviews GeDá Jones Herbert on the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and its impacts on civil rights protections and enforcement in public schools.

Chairman of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, recently introduced legislation that would eliminate citizen suits under ...

It costs the state of New Hampshire roughly three times more to place someone with physical disabilities or older adults in a ...

A federal judge is directing the White House to reinstate sign language interpreters at many press briefings months after ...

U.S. Judge Amir Ali called the Trump Administration’s decision to nix ASL interpretation illegal, blocking access to ...

The National Association of the Deaf is celebrating a legal victory against the White House. A judge ordered ASL for briefings conducted by the press secretary or President Trump.

The Justice Department is appealing an order for the White House to provide ASL interpretation during press briefings given ...

Over the weekend, the Trump administration fired almost all employees in the Department of Education’s Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services. The mass dismissals were part of ...

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Thirty-five years ago, the Americans with Disabilities Act was signed into law. It was the world's first comprehensive civil rights law for people with disabilities. To commemorate the anniversary, ...