Disability advocates fear rights eroding as DOJ lowers barrier to institutionalization and special education oversight shifts to HHS
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Annie Ma
2h ago· 7 min readenNews
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The article reports on concerns that the rights of people with disabilities are being eroded under the Trump administration. Key developments include the Department of Justice releasing guidance that lowers the barrier to institutionalizing people with disabilities, and the Education Department transferring oversight of special education to the Department of Health and Human Services led by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has made controversial comments about autism. Critics argue these moves threaten decades of progress in integrating disabled people into mainstream schools and communities.
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The Department of Justice recently released guidance that lowered the barrier to institutionalizing any person with a disability.
Critics argue this undermines decades of progress in integrating disabled people into schools and communities.
For decades, disabled people have fought for their rights to go to school and live alongside peers without disabilities. Now, they fear those rights could be losing ground under the Trump administration. Most notably, the Department of Justice recently re
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