What Is Voting? Voting is how people make choices together. When you vote, you say what you want. We vote for people who want to lead our country, state, and city. These people are called candidates. When they win, they become elected officials. Elected officials make choices about our lives. They decide how programs work. […]
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Last night, staff of the House Energy and Commerce Committee released their draft budget plan that outlines how they will cut Medicaid, and it’s moving fast. The committee will debate it this week.
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WASHINGTON, DC - As national organizations dedicated to advancing the well-being of autistic individuals, the Autistic Self Advocacy Network, Autism Society of America, Autism Speaks, The Arc of the U...
Written by Leigh Anne McKingsley, The Arc's Senior Director of Disability & Justice Initiatives, on the killing of Victor Perez, an autistic teenager in Idaho who was shot and killed by police.
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A new proposal to shift the oversight of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) from the U.S. Department of Education to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) could fundame...
Statement from our CEO Katy Neas on the Executive Order to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education. To learn more, read Katy's op-ed in Newsweek.
"Dismantling the U.S. Department of Education is...
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WASHINGTON, DC – In a major victory for disability rights, a fed...
WASHINGTON, DC – A coalition of national disability rights organizations is urging the U.S. Supreme Court to protect the civil rights of students with disabilities in AJT v. Osseo Area Schools, a la...
This op-ed from The Arc's CEO Katy Neas originally appeared in Newsweek.
If the U.S. Department of Education disappears, millions of students with disabilities will face even greater barriers to gett...
Statement from our CEO Katy Neas on the tragic DC plane crash and claims that it could have been caused by the FAA's DEI hiring practices, particularly of people with intellectual disabilities:
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