For most of us, taking a hunting trip involves a little packing, depending on where you’re headed, a vehicle and possibly an ATV or boat ride, and a walk or climb to the area or stand.
Faced with the challenging and emotional situation associated with the state’s responsibility to care for thousands of Kansans with various disabilities, there really wasn’t any way for Kansas Gov. Mark Parkinson to come up with a plan or solution that would please everyone involved.
Local and state advocates for those with disabilities were “outraged” after learning of reports that White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel reportedly used an epithet relating to people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
A blind law student can use computer-assisted reading devices in next month’s bar exam, a federal judge has ruled, rejecting the examiners’ arguments that the assistance was too generous and might let someone steal the test questions.
Metro schools have entered in an agreement with the U.S. Justice Department, designed to protect special-education students from being sexually assaulted.
He’s played in countries all over the world and in all 50 states. He’s appeared on “The David Letterman Show” and can be heard furiously playing his spoons on Frank Zappa’s “Civilization Phaze III.”
With the Obama administration and many state governors calling for more charter schools, it may be time for policymakers to address directly the issue of these schools’ imbalanced enrollment of students with disabilities.