Read the latest blog posts from Disability Rights Texas staff.
Molly Broadway, DRTx Voting Rights Training Specialist With a record 15.6 million registered to vote in Texas this year, early voting is a great way to save time and skip… Continue reading “How to Skip Long Lines at the Polls”
Steven Aleman, DRTx Attorney and Policy Specialist On September 14, 2018, a committee of the Texas State Board of Education (SBOE) held a preliminary vote to remove Helen Keller from… Continue reading “Blind Vision”
Dustin Rynders, Supervising Attorney, Education Team DRTx is excited to announce the launch of our new “Make My School Safe” Toolkit, created with our partners at Texas Appleseed and the… Continue reading “Make My School Safe Toolkit”
Mary Faithfull, Executive Director First and foremost, Disability Rights Texas wants you to know that our thoughts and prayers are with all of you impacted by Hurricane Harvey. The devastation… Continue reading “Protecting the Rights of Hurricane Survivors with Disabilities”
Mary Faithfull, Executive Director I am excited to announce that later this month we will be debuting our new accessible, mobile responsive website. More than a year ago we surveyed you,… Continue reading “New Website Coming Soon”
Mary Faithfull, Executive Director Three years ago, DRTx started noticing that in the last decade, the percentage of students with disabilities receiving special education services in Texas was declining steadily…. Continue reading “The Story Behind the “Denied” Story”
Mary Faithfull, Executive Director Some Texas workers are making as little as pennies per hour while some of their bosses are making six figure salaries. And it’s legal because of… Continue reading “Ending Sub-minimum Wage and Sheltered Employment”
Mary Faithfull, Executive Director In 1999, DRTx attorneys filed a class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court in Tyler on behalf of eight children and other Medicaid beneficiaries under… Continue reading “After 16 Years, Lawsuit Affecting Children Receiving Medicaid Concludes”
Mary Faithfull, Executive Director The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 is one of our country’s most comprehensive pieces of civil rights legislation. This equal opportunity law for people with… Continue reading “The ADA Turns 25: Decades of Progress and the Road Ahead”
Mary Faithfull, Executive Director This past February marked my 26th year with Disability Rights Texas (DRTx), with 13 years as executive director. And as we approach the end of another… Continue reading “Veterans, Concerts, Breathing, Independence”