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 Texas (DRTx) and Susman Godfrey LLP on Monday announced that they are filing a lawsuit against Austin ISD, claiming that the district is failing thousands of students with disabilities. The lawsuit claims… Continue reading “Austin ISD Sued Over Student Disability Evaluations”
Last week’s storm made it clear there’s no safety net for disabled Texans during a disaster. Advocates say that can be a death sentence. Like many Texans, Rafael Garcia couldn’t… Continue reading “‘We Have No Safety Net’: Disability Rights Advocates Speak Out After Winter Storm”
School system tries to keep up with its workload and comply with legal mandates Trasell Underwood doesn’t know how hard it will be yet. Underwood adopted her son when he… Continue reading “AISD’s Special Education System Struggles to Keep Up”
Freezing temperatures and winter storms have caused widespread power outages across the country leaving people with disabilities and chronic illnesses scrambling to find ways to access life-saving medical supplies and charge… Continue reading “They have chronic illnesses. Then, the power went out in Texas. ‘It’s been emotionally exhausting.’”
As COVID-19 cases surge, North Texas hospitals could soon be faced with a shortage of life-saving equipment, such a ICU beds and ventilators. People with disabilities fear if that happens,… Continue reading “Revised Pandemic Rationing Plan Protects Disabled Texans From Being Sent To Back Of Line For Ventilators”
The advocacy group Disability Rights Texas examined statewide data and found that students with disabilities and Black students are physically restrained by educators at disproportionately high rates. In Texas, when… Continue reading “Report: Texas Schools Still Forcibly Restrain Students Too Often”
Eli Clark has been waiting nearly a year for help. A good student with dreams of working in neuroscience, Eli, a 17-year-old junior who uses the pronouns they and them,… Continue reading “Thousands of families in special-education limbo”
The Texas Education Agency has failed to show it sufficiently addressed any of the U.S. Department of Education’s requirements for improving special education across the state, federal officials said in a… Continue reading “Feds ‘cannot determine’ whether Texas has made progress fixing special ed violations”
Every county is required to offer curbside voting to any voter whose health would be harmed by entering the polls, or who is physically incapable of doing so. Vera, 52,… Continue reading “For nearly 3 million disabled Texans, voting this year is even harder”
Deaf voters in Bexar County can only get interpreter assistance at two polling locations, despite disability advocates saying voters should have the ability to get help at the location of… Continue reading “Deaf voters in Bexar County only given access to interpreter assistance at two voting sites”