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Education Law Prof Blog
Study: No Empirical Support for Common Belief that Minorities are Overrepresented in Special Education
A UC-Irvine-Penn State study released this week refutes some conventional wisdom that minority students are overrepresented in special education classes. The federal government currently requires school districts to allocate funds for early-intervention…
Education Law Prof Blog
New York City’s Systematic Failure to Share Information with Non-English Speaking Parents
By Derek Black
The New York Immigration Coalition’s newest report shows systemic failures to offer translation and interpretation services for parents in New York City’s schools. Such failures, of course, would be potential…
School Law
Revisiting Reasonable Accommodation Under the ADA — Being “Effective”
This post originally appeared on the Connecticut Employment Law Blog. What does it really mean to provide a reasonable accommodation to an employee who has a disability? That’s a question…
Education Law Prof Blog
Class Action Suit Asks Court to Recognize Complex Trauma as a Disability
A novel class action suit asks a federal court to require the Compton (CA) Unified School District to recognize and accommodate the effects of multiple traumas on its students. The plaintiffs…
Education Law Prof Blog
Recent Special Education Decisions
Supreme Court Declines Review of Case Presenting Circuit Split on IDEA's Stay-Put ProvisionAs covered by SCOTUSBlog, the Supreme Court declined certiorari this week in a special education case, Ridley School…
Pennsylvania Labor & Employment Blog
Five Ways the EEOC Proposed Wellness Regulations Would Change Workplace Health Initiatives
By Eric Athey
Background The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) generally prohibits employers from requiring current employees to submit to medical examinations or medical inquiries unless the exam or inquiry is "job-related and…
Other
New York Law Creates Quandary for Businesses with New “Accessible Icon”
By Seyfarth Shaw LLP, Seyfarth Shaw LLP
By John W. Egan Despite the url (www.adatitleiii.com) and frequent federal focus of this blog, it is important to remember that many states and municipalities have their own disability access…
Employment & Labor
LXBN TV: Do Employers Have to Let Employees Telecommute Under ADA? Not Always, Says Sixth Circuit
The workplace nowadays is in a constant state of change—that is, if there's a workplace at all as so many people are telecommuting and coworking and a number of other…
Education Law Prof Blog
Legitimate Security Concerns Cannot Override Prisons’ Obligation to Provide Special Education Services
The Middle District of Pennsylvania recently held that while special education services can be modified for an incarcerated student who presents security concerns, an institution cannot restrict the student’s access…
PropertyProf Blog
Malloy on Land Use Law & Disability
Robin Malloy (Syracuse) has posted Inclusion by Design, Thinking Beyond a Civil Rights Paradigm - Land Use Law and Disability: Planning and Zoning for Accessible Communities (Book Chapter) on SSRN. …