- Voting
Polling Places Remain Inaccessible to Voters with Disabilities, Here’s How to Fix Them
August 18, 2020
Election administrators must include people with disabilities in their planning process to improve access and make the necessary changes to their polling locations to ensure equal access to the ballot box for all Americans.
Statement - Voting
Disability Advocates Recommend Accessibility Improvements to In-Person Voting Systems
August 18, 2020
While accessible voting systems increase access to the vote, far too often voters find these accessible voting systems in practice to be poorly maintained over time, segregated at polling places, and remain a mystery for poll workers who have not set them up and turned them on for use.
Statement - Voting
Vote by Mail Must be Accessible to Voters with Disabilities
August 18, 2020
To ensure voters with disabilities can mark, verify, and cast their ballots by mail privately and independently, election administrators must increase the accessibility of current vote by mail systems.
Statement - Education
Everyone on Day One: Students with Disabilities Left Out of Back to School Plans
July 29, 2020
Students housed in juvenile detention facilities, public and private special education schools, psychiatric hospitals, alternative programs residential treatment facilities, and immigration detention (among others) have the same rights to receive a public education.
Statement - Education
School Resource Officers Do Not Belong in Our Nation’s Schools
July 24, 2020
Many stories in the media portray school resource officers (SROs) as a benign, neutral, or even positive presence in schools. However, the data shows that for children with disabilities, especially for those who are children of color, this is false.
Statement