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Disability, IDEA, and the Impact of Federal Cuts
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New America
The 50th anniversary of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) was last year, and a lot has changed for students with disabilities since its passage.
Historically, students with disabilities haven't received what they need to be on par with students without disabilities.
Even though laws exist at the federal level, at the state level, locally, our systems are very fragmented.
There was a time when people were fighting for, at the state level, the introduction of disability rights into schools and an understanding of what the disability rights movement is.
As someone who didn't grow up understanding the disability rights movement, I knew who Martin Luther King was, I knew who Rosa Parks was, but Disability Rights wasn't its own curriculum.