For decades, disabled people have fought for their rights to go to school and live alongside peers without disabilities — ...

Parents of kids with disabilities say they have waited months for the Education Department to address complaints of bullying ...

Advocates fought for change and disabled students began gaining new educational rights and protections. A few years later, in 1979, Congress created the DOE. Before the DOE, federal education programs ...

The Justice Department's opinion challenges civil rights protections that have long treated the institutionalization of ...

Iowa City is advancing a new ordinance to define sex stereotyping as illegal discrimination amid state law changes.

Federal fair housing laws require landlords to make reasonable accommodations for people with disabilities, like providing handicap parking or setting rent schedules around Social Security benefits.

TAMPA, Fla. — Complaints filed with the Justice Department claim that the company that owns Busch Gardens Tampa Bay prohibited people from using "rollator walkers" with seats, a type of mobility aid, ...

HOUSTON – The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights has opened a disability discrimination investigation into the over concerns tied to the district’s proposal to centralize certain ...

PORTLAND Ore. (KPTV) - A year-long investigation by Oregon’s Bureau of Labor and Industries found evidence that Home Forward and Multnomah County may not be providing equitable access to housing and ...

SHE WAS 20 YEARS OLD AT THE TIME SHE WENT MISSING IN 12. INVESTIGATES. A MAJOR COMPANY IS PAYING A BIG SETTLEMENT AFTER A DISABILITY DISCRIMINATION CASE. WE WERE THE FIRST TO BREAK HERE IN THE TRIAD, ...

PHILADELPHIA — A Pennsylvania health system has agreed to pay $450,000 to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). Geisinger ...