How low can they go? Have they absolutely NO decency whatsoever? CHIP remains unfunded. Orange Disaster personally kneecapped the ACA, with a stroke of his pen refusing to fund subsidies for lower income people seeking health insurance and throwing the markets into disarray. Puerto Rico and the USVI are disasters with the worst yet to come. There is no excuse for any of this.
Now, along comes another of The Deplorables to make our lives more miserable. Yes, she, Betsy DeVos, has decided that 72 guidance documents protecting the rights of disabled students are superfluous.
Yes! Disabled students don’t need rights or protections in DeVos Land, any more that rape victims do apparently. Of course private school students will be protected but that’s another story, just as billionaires will always have plenty of everything.
I’m bitter. Here is this unqualified white rich person who’s never struggled a day in her life deciding that disabled children don’t deserve her protection.
I know a number of teachers who work with disabled children. The challenges they face are daunting and profound and they need the support of all of us including the government that is supposed to be protecting the vulnerable.
The Education Department has rescinded 72 policy documents that outline the rights of students with disabilities as part of the Trump administration’s effort to eliminate regulations it deems superfluous.
The Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services wrote in a newsletter Friday that it had “a total of 72 guidance documents that have been rescinded due to being outdated, unnecessary, or ineffective — 63 from the Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) and 9 from the Rehabilitation Services Administration (RSA).” The documents, which fleshed out students’ rights under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act and the Rehabilitation Act, were rescinded Oct. 2.
A spokeswoman for Education Secretary Betsy DeVos did not respond to requests for comment.
Advocates for students with disabilities were still reviewing the changes to determine their impact. Lindsay E. Jones, the chief policy and advocacy officer for the National Center for Learning Disabilities, said she was particularly concerned to see guidance documents outlining how schools could use federal money for special education removed.
I don’t know. Maybe I’m overreacting.
Maybe those 72 documents were just unnecessary frou frou like, you know, protection for our environment, rules against fouling the water and the air, rules against guns —
Oh wait. We don’t HAVE any rules against guns do we, not really. In fact thanks to this regime we can now be completely crazy and go out and buy a gun. Yay!
However, we can get rid of rules protecting the poor, the elderly, the sick, women, the LGBTQ community, the environment, the animals and the children, even disabled children.
Yay?
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