Read the latest blog posts from Disability Rights Texas staff.
Update from Molly Broadway, DRTx Voting Rights Training Specialist: In partnership with Lone Star Transportation, Lyft is providing free Wheelchair Accessible Vehicle (WAV) rides to the polls in Austin, Texas,… Continue reading “In Austin: Free Wheelchair Accessible Rides to the Polls by Lyft”
This past spring, the Texas legislature passed several laws related to special education, student mental health, school funding, student safety, and more. For a complete overview, see our 2019 Texas… Continue reading “New School Year, New Laws, News Rights”
This week marks the 20th anniversary of a very important legal decision regarding the rights of people with disabilities. On June 22, 1999, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in “Olmstead… Continue reading “How Two Women Changed Thousands of Lives”
Since May is National Mental Health Awareness Month, we’d like to take this opportunity to let you know about the work Disability Rights Texas (DRTx) does to protect and advocate… Continue reading “How We Advocate for People with Mental Illness”
Edie Surtees, Communications Director March is Developmental Disabilities (DD) Awareness Month. Though we’ve come along way in breaking down barriers for people with DD to live and work and play… Continue reading “How You Can Get Involved in DD Awareness Month”
Each one of you is more than a number to us. We feel privileged to have assisted you in some way last year to ensure you have equal access and… Continue reading “Agency 2018 Report Card”
Steven Aleman, Attorney and Policy Specialist Today Disability Rights Texas marks the one-year anniversary of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) report on the Texas Education Agency’s (TEA) violations of… Continue reading “One Year Ago, Feds Reported Unprecedented Findings Against Texas Public Schools”
Why would a 22-year-old man end up living in a nursing home for 13 years? Richard Krause, now 38, lived in one from 2001 to 2014. While there, he mostly… Continue reading “Lawsuit Eight Years in the Making Goes to Trial”
We have some exciting news about donating to Disability Rights Texas on Giving Tuesday, November 27. On that day ONLY (the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, Black Friday, and Cyber Monday) when… Continue reading “Try a Little Kindness”
Disability Rights Texas is proud to announce that our own Susan Murphree, Senior Policy Specialist, is the first recipient of the Arc of Texas Virginia Eernisse Legacy Award. The late… Continue reading “DRTx Advocate Receives Inaugural Leadership Award”