Are the Nation’s Schools Following the ADA?
May 1, 2018
By: Michelle Diament
Source: Disability Scoop
Members of Congress are asking for a federal investigation into whether schools across the country are in compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Nearly thirty years after passage of the landmark disability rights law, three lawmakers are asking the Government Accountability Office to find out if the nation’s schools are as accessible as they should be.
“Students with disabilities, from New York City to coastal Virginia and all across the country, are entitled to a ‘free, appropriate public education’ under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. However, localities continue to undermine the law by limiting the number of schools students with disabilities can physically access through negligence and lackluster enforcement of the ADA,” wrote U.S. Reps. José E. Serrano, D-N.Y., Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., and Bobby Scott, D-Va., in a letter to GAO.