U.S. Secretary of HHS Robert F. Kennedy Jr. proposed reversing the Biden administration rule that included gender dysphoria under the definition of disability. The proposal would amend Section 504, ...

WASHINGTON — Before President Donald Trump's administration started dismantling the Education Department, the agency served ...

Hochul has previously defended the transition, calling it a much-needed reform. A spokesperson for the governor said this ...

Nigeria has built an impressive legal framework for disability rights. The challenge now is turning these commitments into ...

The question of whether to disclose a disability at work is practical, political, and deeply personal, often shaped less by ...

TACOMA — A federal judge on Monday morning ordered the immediate release of a disabled U.S. Army veteran who has been held at the Northwest ICE Processing Center in Tacoma, Washington since August.

Fifty years ago, Congress dramatically expanded schools’ responsibilities when it passed the nation’s primary special education law, requiring children with disabilities to receive a “free appropriate ...

A little-known civil rights office in the Department of Education that helps resolve complaints from students across the country about discrimination and accommodating disabilities has been gutted by ...

For half a century, the U.S. has been achieving one of the most important civil rights victories most Americans have never heard of: closing the large institutions that once warehoused people with ...

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Administering an exam used to be straightforward: All a college professor needed was an open room and a stack of blue books. At many American universities, this is no longer true. Professors now ...