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The Center for Learner Equity The Center for Learner Equity
  • Who We Are
    • Our Story
    • Our Mission, Vision and Core Values
    • Partners
    • Funding
    • Our Team
      • Staff
      • Board
    • Current Openings
  • What We Do
    • Document and Communicate Vital Facts
    • Develop Coalitions
      • Equity Coalition
      • CMO Network
      • NICE Initiative
    • Inform Policy
    • Build Capacity for Excellence in the Field
    • Ahearn Visionary Award
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Child Pulling Off Handcuffs With Hands in Air

The Center’s Statement on Law Enforcement in Schools

For decades, students with disabilities have been disproportionately subjected to the harshest and most exclusionary discipline in schools, including suspensions, expulsions, restraint, seclusion, referrals to law enforcement, and school-related arrests.

  • November 19, 2020
  • The Center
  • Blog, Statement
The White House

The Center’s Statement on the Election of President-Elect Joe Biden and Vice-President Elect Kamala Harris

The Center congratulates President-Elect Joe Biden and Vice-President-Elect Kamala Harris on their victory. We look forward to this opportunity to work together to promote and protect the civil rights of students with disabilities.

  • November 8, 2020
  • Blog, Statement
Crip Camp Movie Poster

Crip Camp: A Documentary About Human Dignity, Justice, and Summer Flings

The history of the struggle to secure rights for people with disabilities is a facet of the civil rights movement that is not well known. Fortunately, there is now an extraordinary, humanizing, inspirational film on Netflix that tells a crucial part of that story.

  • November 6, 2020
  • Paul O’Neill
  • Blog
The Impact of LEA Status on Special Education in Charter Schools Infographic

Infographic: Understanding Charter School LEA Status

A charter school’s legal status as part of a larger local education agency (LEA) independent LEA affects the autonomy, funding, and programming of the school—and is essential to understanding what entity is responsible for educating students with disabilities. Nevertheless, LEA status can be confusing, especially since approaches vary by state and even by school. This infographic outlines the different approaches and their implications for students with disabilities.

  • October 27, 2020
  • The Center
  • Blog, Resource
Hopscotch Chalk Outline

Top Tips for School Leaders during COVID-19

Eight months after COVID-19 first shut down schools across the country, the state of education in the United States remains in flux. Students with disabilities, in particular, continue to be disproportionately impacted by school closures and lack of access to services. As cases tick upward once again, school leaders and administrators are likely to face tough decisions in the coming months. Despite the immense difficulty of the situation, we have identified several key strategies that will set school leaders up for success.

  • October 22, 2020
  • Megan Ohlssen
  • Blog, COVID-19, Resource
Kid Doing Homework

New CRDC Data Shows Increasingly Disproportionate Discipline of Students with Disabilities

Students with disabilities have long faced disproportionate rates of harsh disciplinary practices like physical or mechanical restraint and seclusion—often with disastrous results, including permanent injury and death. New data from the Civil Rights Data Collection released today by the US Department of Education shows that this disproportionality has sharply increased—a shocking and disappointing trend. 

  • October 15, 2020
  • The Center
  • Blog, Statement
Seal of the US House of Representatives

The Center’s Statement Regarding the Supporting Children with Disabilities During COVID-19 Act

Children with disabilities have been disproportionately affected by the COVID-19 pandemic—both in and out of school—and the enormous challenge of adapting to the new normal has placed schools and districts under financial strain. In light of these facts, the Center is proud to support the Supporting Children with Disabilities During COVID-19 Act (H.R. 8523). 

  • October 15, 2020
  • The Center
  • Blog, COVID-19, Statement
Empty Classroom

Returning to School in the Wake of Disaster: Post-Katrina Lessons for the COVID Era

As New Orleans educators and advocates for children, we are reflecting on the 15th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina and the ongoing manifestations of that trauma for our community and our children. With humility and transparency, we examine the mistakes we made in our efforts to reopen schools and educate children, especially children with disabilities, in the wake of that unimaginable disaster and loss. We hope that our lessons learned will prove valuable to educators nationwide as they reopen schools in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.

  • October 8, 2020
  • Jennifer Coco + Aqua Stovall + Liz Marcell Williams
  • Blog, COVID-19
Image of Top of CRDC infographic

Infographic: Key Trends in Special Education in Charter Schools (2015-2016)

The Center’s bi-annual secondary analyses of the US Department of State’s Civil Rights Data Collection help to identify trend data related to special education in public schools, and in particular in US charter schools. This infographic illustrates key trends the Center identified in our analysis of the 2015-2016 data collection.

  • September 23, 2020
  • The Center
  • Blog
Ruth Bader Ginsburg

The Center Mourns the Passing of Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg spent her life standing up—and speaking up—for just and equal treatment for all.  She was the author of one of this country’s most impactful Supreme Court decisions on disability rights, Olmstead v. L.C., where she stood up against the systematic institutionalization of people with disabilities, holding that “unjustified institutional isolation is a form of discrimination” that “perpetuates unwarranted assumptions that persons so isolated are incapable or unworthy of participating in community life.”

  • September 19, 2020
  • The Center
  • Blog, Statement
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