Resources

  • Education

    NDRN Joins Amicus in Service Animal Case

    November 21, 2017

    NDRN joined three other national and state disability rights organizations in an amicus in support of appellant’s argument that the IDEA’s exhaustion requirement should not apply in a case where a school district refused to allow a student to bring a service animal to school.

    Amicus Brief
  • Education

    NDRN Joins Amicus in IDEA Case

    November 21, 2017

    NDRN joined 42 other national and state disability and civil rights organizations in an amicus supporting the appellant’s argument that the IDEA requires more than de minimus educational benefit.

    Amicus Brief
  • Education

    Civil Rights for Students with Disabilities Under Attack

    November 17, 2017

    WASHINGTON – Leaders from the U.S. Department of Education (ED) are looking to roll back recently implemented reforms that ensure access to certain groups of children who have traditionally been removed from school at disparate rates. The issue of school discipline was discussed at a meeting today between ED…

    Press Release
  • Education

    National Disability Rights Network Statement on Trump Special Education and Rehabilitative Services Nominee

    November 16, 2017

    WASHINGTON – NDRN is pleased the Trump Administration has nominated Johnny Collett to fill the position of Assistant Secretary of the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS).

    Press Release
  • ADA & Civil Rights

    NDRN Joins Amicus in Voting Case

    November 13, 2017

    NDRN joined the Sixth Circuit P&A and the National American Civil Liberties Union and its state affiliates in an amicus brief in support of plaintiffs who sought to require the state to provide access to accessible online absentee balloting marking to vote privately and independently.

    Amicus Brief