Tag: politics
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The Fight for Disability Rights
Special Education is inherently political. Services that seem to be ubiquitous today seemed unobtainable not too long ago. The rights and protections afforded to students and people with disabilities are the product of organizers, parents, advocates, and disabled individuals themselves relentlessly demanding them. However, partially due to the stigmatization that is still placed upon those…
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An Open Letter to Dick Durbin and Tammy Duckworth
Good evening Senators Durbin and Duckworth, Thank you both for being a voice for Illinois. I am a special education teacher and a doctoral candidate who teaches on the West Side of Chicago. The damage that Elon Musk is doing will be devastating to the West Side Community, and especially my students. People with disabilities…
