Education

Lawsuit Filed Against State of California for Failure to Provide Special Education Services in Del Norte Unified School District

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December 14, 2023
Today, DREDF, CREEC, and the law firm King & Spalding LLP as pro bono counsel filed a complaint against the State of California alleging that the Del Norte County Unified School District has failed to provide equal educational opportunities to disabled students in the district as required by the Constitution of the state of California and that the State must step in.

Letter to the Board of Trustees of the Los Angeles Community College District (LACCD)

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December 16, 2021
The undersigned are leaders and members of the disability community, and include representatives of key disability organizations. We write to urge the Los Angeles Community College District (LACCD) to abandon its dangerous plan to file a petition for certiorari with the United States Supreme Court in the Payan v. LACCD litigation. The proposed petition would challenge the very foundation of disability rights – that the Americans with Disabilities Act and Section 504 prohibit unintentional forms of disability discrimination. The petition would conflict with LACCD's purported commitment to the inclusion of people with disabilities, and is not necessary to address and resolve the access problems demonstrated by the blind students who brought the case. Should the Supreme Court agree with LACCD that federal law prohibits only intentional forms of disability discrimination, more than 40 years of hard-fought-for civil rights of people with disabilities would be undone. [...]

Payan v LACCD Explainer

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December 16, 2021
Payan v. Los Angeles Community College District is a case brought by blind students against the Los Angeles Community College District (LACCD). The students want the textbooks, handouts, websites, and other technology they use at school to be accessible to them. They sued in federal court under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act. [...]

Class Action Seeks to End Illegal and Abusive Restraints and Seclusion Practices Used Against Children with Disabilities in California

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May 15, 2019
Concord, CA, May 15, 2019 — Four elementary school children with disabilities and their parents and guardians filed a class action lawsuit Monday against the California Department of Education (CDE), directors of the Contra Costa County Office of Education, and staff at Floyd I. Marchus School to challenge the illegal and abusive use of restraints and seclusion in non-emergency situations. [...]

DREDF Complaint Against Berkeley Unified School District Results in Necessary Reforms, Improvements for Students with Disabilities

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November 30, 2018
DREDF filed a disability discrimination civil rights complaint with the U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights against Berkeley Unified School District for its continuing failure to ensure the provision of a free appropriate public education (FAPE) to qualified students with disabilities in violation of Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act (“Title II” or “ADA”), 42 U.S.C. § 12131 et seq., and its implementing regulations at 28 C.F.R. Part 35; and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, as amended, 29 U.S.C. § 794, and its implementing regulations at 34 C.F.R. Part 104.

Students With Reading Disorders Sue Berkeley Unified School District (BUSD) for Failing to Educate Them

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May 2, 2017
Berkeley, California - Disability rights lawyers filed a complaint in federal court today against Berkeley Unified School District (BUSD), the BUSD Superintendent, the BUSD Board of Education, and the Directors of the BUSD Board of Education, for systemically failing to educate students with reading disorders, and students who are suspected to have reading disorders.

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