The Department of Education issued a two-year delay of the “disproportionality” rule from the Obama administration, which aimed to ensure students from specific backgrounds aren’t wrongly placed in special education. Democratic lawmakers and disability advocates have expressed concern with the delay.
Sen. Chris Coons, among other officials, is urging Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos to discharge outstanding federal student loans for totally and permanently disabled citizens, including veterans. Under the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, individuals who have these loans discharged don’t have to include them in their gross income.
This year’s Open Data Challenge, which uses data to solve statewide problems, has a theme of “Improving Access to Recreation for All Delawareans.” Some problems attracting attention include access to transportation, state parks and beaches.
Former Delaware Gov. Jack Markell discusses the increasing number of individuals with disabilities entering the workforce in this opinion piece. He argues that bipartisan legislation is essential to getting individuals with disabilities employed, which helps build economic opportunity and reduces dependence on tax-payer funded benefits.
Of five University of Delaware professors who recently received funding for research projects, one – Zhenghan Qi – is studying whether language difficulty in autism is related to statistical learning and how this learning element operates in the brain.
