Below you’ll find some of the news coverage about how Disability Rights Texas is making an impact for people with disabilities in Texas.
Disability rights advocates say the state has not provided enough guidance about the type of help people with disabilities can and cannot receive under new voting laws passed last year. Continue reading “Texans with disabilities fear new restrictions on voting help could mean criminal charges at the polls”
Excerpt: “A back-and-forth between Texas elections officials over ‘high’ levels of rejected mail-in ballot applications has left advocates worried about the impact on elderly or disabled voters.” Continue reading “Rejected mail-in ballot applications have advocates worried about impact on elderly, disabled voters”
Excerpt: “State law and the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), give people living with disabilities protections from discrimination. Ted Evans, staff attorney at Disability Rights Texas, said employers are required… Continue reading “People living with developmental disabilities face uphill battle accessing jobs”
Excerpt: “Parents of disabled children together with Disability Rights Texas won a ruling in November that could have ramifications well beyond the state of Texas. The dispute arose in July,… Continue reading “Opinion: Legal battle over school masks in Texas has national repercussions”
Excerpt: “A federal district judge last week denied Austin ISD’s motion to dismiss a lawsuit filed on behalf of students with disabilities over the district’s failure to evaluate students in… Continue reading “AISD Special Education Lawsuit Moves Forward”
Excerpt: “A federal judge ruled on Wednesday that Gov. Greg Abbott’s ban on mask mandates in Texas schools violates the rights of students with disabilities, clearing the path for districts… Continue reading “A judge says Texas’ ban on mask mandates violates the rights of students with disabilities”
Advocacy group alleges Abbott’s executive order unfairly harms kids with disabilities Excerpt: “Disability Rights Texas filed the first federal lawsuit against Gov. Greg Abbott over his ban on mask mandates,… Continue reading “Disability Rights Texas files federal lawsuit against Gov. Abbott over school mask mandate ban”
After July 1 deadline, 77 evaluations still not complete On June 30, Austin ISD made an announcement: its once-egregious backlog of hundreds of uncompleted special education evaluations was “no more.” The backlog, which… Continue reading “Has AISD Cleared its Special Education Backlog, or Not?”
Caroline Cheevers still recalls the panic. With Winter Storm Uri killing power across Houston, there seemed no help for her daughter, Hailey, a medically fragile 10-year-old who requires electricity to… Continue reading “New law requires wellness checks during crises for the medically fragile who depend on power”
Ebonie Baltimore got a call on March 1 from the group home where her nephew, Xavier Hernandez, lived. Something had happened to Hernandez at school, the caller said, and he’d… Continue reading “Fort Worth student with autism died after being restrained at school. What happened?”