Deafblind funding largely restored Oct 22, 2025 0 68 News STIC After furious public outcry, the Trump Administration reversed itself and restored the funding for the deafblind programs. However, it is too soon to declare unconditional victory; the funding is bein... Read more
Trump Administration cuts funding for deafblind children Sep 19, 2025 0 309 News STIC Citing concerns about DEI, the U.S. Department of Education has halted funding for programs that support students with combined hearing and vision loss in eight states. “How low can you go?” one advoc... Read more
Myth and Reality about CDPAP amidst the PPL takeover Jul 31, 2025 0 517 News STIC This is a reprint of a press release jointly issued by the New York Association of Independent Living and The Caring Majority. A City State story on the CDPAP transition today cited a PPL study on fra... Read more
Advocacy preserves Accessibility Jul 31, 2025 0 389 News STIC The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) tried to bulldoze through a rule change without the standard public comment period. It wanted to change a key disability rights law, specifically Section 504 of the... Read more
Trump Administration "saves" subminimum wage jobs Jul 16, 2025 0 337 News STIC In our Spring 2025 issue, we celebrated the Department of Labor’s announcement to phase out 14(c) certificates—finally moving to end the outdated and discriminatory policy that allowed people with dis... Read more
CourtsWatch, Summer 2025 -- UPDATE Jun 18, 2025 0 634 News STIC A.J.T. v. Osseo Area Schools: Defining the standard of “reasonable” This case comes to us from the Minneapolis suburbs, where a student, A.J.T. (“Ava”), with a profound disability moved to the school ... Read more
