Sentences with phrase «federal disability legislation»

He says that New York State must fill in the gap created by the Federal courts in the enforcement of Federal disability legislation.

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Later federal legislation added protections for disability, age, pregnancy, and veteran status.

Poloncarz also said he expects to gain more headway with his proposed Fair Housing Law, which adds to existing state and federal anti-discrimination legislation to prohibit housing discrimination based on sources of income, which are frequently cited as a pretext for discriminating against prospective tenants and buyers based on race, marital status and disabilities.

The final legislation renames the Tappan Zee Bridge after former Gov. Mario Cuomo; provides a financial incentive package to entice Vernon Downs racino and harness track to remain open; offers $ 55 million in relief for Lake Ontario communities ravaged by flooding; tweaks a law to allow New York City first responders to receive an accidental disability pensions even if they don't receive a federal Social Security disability pension; and creates a 250 - acre forest land bank to allow for certain public utility projects under a constitutional amendment.

Section 504 is Section 504 the Rehabilitation Act and it was through a simple reauthorization of that piece of legislation that advocates were successful in putting in just one clause in that, in that law which was that basically that any entity that received federal funds that discriminated against people with disabilities, that that was illegal.

He has worked on various reauthorizations of federal legislation, including the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, Head Start, Child Care, Higher Education, and the America COMPETES Act.

In federal legislation, LD is not a single disability but a category of special education composed of disabilities in any one or more of seven skill domains: listening, speaking, basic reading (decoding and word recognition), reading comprehension, writing, arithmetic calculation, and mathematics reasoning.

Part of the historic extension of equal educational opportunity rights to the disabled, Public Law 94 - 142, the Education of All - Handicapped Children Act, now known as the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), was one of the most popular pieces of federal education legislation ever enacted.

Children with disabilities did not have a right to a free public education until after the passage of federal legislation in 1975 and were often excluded from public schools.

The U.S. House of Representatives has passed legislation to remove the terms mentally retarded and mental retardation from federal laws, to be replaced with «intellectually disabled / disabilities.»

• Thanks to federal legislation, nearly all children with disabilities are educated in public schools, often in regular classrooms.

The federal definition of special education is based upon legislation from the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA).

«This important federal legislation now before us is vital toward ensuring that our nation honors its obligation to students with disabilities,» said Gentzel.

Teachers of students with learning disabilities are mandated by federal legislation to consider the need for assistive technology during the development of students» individual education programs (IDEA, 2004).

Richmond posits that part of the explanation for the growth in the non-instructional staff lies in a slew of legislation expanding students» education rights: the 1975 Education for All Handicapped Children's Act (now known as the Individual with Disabilities Act) expanding educational access for children with disabilities; Title IX barring sex - based discrimination in educational programs; the Bilingual Education Act of 1968 establishing federal policy for bilingual education; and the Gifted and Talented Children's Education Disabilities Act) expanding educational access for children with disabilities; Title IX barring sex - based discrimination in educational programs; the Bilingual Education Act of 1968 establishing federal policy for bilingual education; and the Gifted and Talented Children's Education disabilities; Title IX barring sex - based discrimination in educational programs; the Bilingual Education Act of 1968 establishing federal policy for bilingual education; and the Gifted and Talented Children's Education Act of 1978.

Although four years have passed since Congress approved the last major rewrite of the Americans with Disabilities Act, federal education officials are continuing their efforts to further clarify the 2008 Amendments Act» legislation for local school districts.»

Federal legislation and federal court cases were also instrumental in holding states and municipalities responsible for ending gender discrimination, for providing students with disabilities access to an education, and for providing support for students learning EFederal legislation and federal court cases were also instrumental in holding states and municipalities responsible for ending gender discrimination, for providing students with disabilities access to an education, and for providing support for students learning Efederal court cases were also instrumental in holding states and municipalities responsible for ending gender discrimination, for providing students with disabilities access to an education, and for providing support for students learning English.

Professional Development for Transition Personnel: Current Issues and Strategies for Success (August 2005) NCSET Information Brief After more than two decades of federal transition legislation, students with disabilities continue to have significantly poorer postschool outcomes as compared to their peers without disabilities.

Breed Specific Legislation (BSL) has been proven unconstitutional in many courts and has even been addressed by the US Federal Department of Justice as unallowable as it robs people with disabilities their right to choosing a pet that meets their specific service and therapy needs.

Drug and alcohol addiction has been recognized as a disability in both Federal and Provincial human rights legislations.

The Agency pointed out that Part V of the Act is human rights legislation meant to ensure that persons with disabilities are not unduly discriminated against within the federal transportation network.

The laws pertaining to employer / employee relationships can be found in many different types of federal legislation, including the Family and Medical Leave Act, Americans with Disability Act, Age Discrimination in Employment Act, Fair Labor Standards Act, Employee Retirement Income Security Act, California Fair Employment and Housing Act, Occupational Safety and Health Act and the Civil Rights Act.

Both federal and provincial human rights legislation requires employers to accommodate employees with disabilities to the point of undue hardship.