Citing the risk of spreading Covid-19, multiple states are halting voter outreach to long-term care facilities, leaving residents with no way to request or cast absentee ballots. While federal law requires facilities that receive Medicaid or Medicare funding to support residents in voting, there have been very few penalties assessed during the Trump administration.
Connections Community Support Program has opened a group home in southern New Castle County for individuals with disabilities or mental health conditions who have left institutions but are not yet ready to live on their own. The 10-bedroom home is the first in Delaware to make use of the National Housing Trust, which was created in 2008 as part of the financial stimulus after the housing market collapsed.
An interconnected web of economic, educational, environmental, housing and health care policies have resulted in Americans of color being more exposed to Covid-19 and more likely to have other health conditions that increase the virus’s deadliness.
Gov. Carney and the civil rights groups that brought a lawsuit alleging Delaware underfunds education for students with disabilities, students from low-income households and English language learners settled the suit with the agreement to hand decision-making to the Delaware General Assembly. Gov. Carney will request the Assembly make his Opportunity Funding, currently offered through grants, permanent. The Assembly will also consider a bill increasing the amount of funding for K-3 basic special education.
Postlethwait Middle School, of Camden, Del., was honored by ESPN and Special Olympics as a Top 5 Unified Champion School nationwide. It joins fellow honorees from Iowa, Minnesota, New Mexico and Vermont. Unified sports are played between teams of students with and without intellectual disabilities.
