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		<title>Selected coverage of ADA anniversary</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 22:13:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What&#8217;s changed in 20 years since ADA passage &#8212; Joseph Shapiro and Tony Cox on NPR&#8217;s Talk of the Nation Looking back on 20 years of disability rights &#8212; By Ben Mattlin on National Public Radio. An excerpt: &#8230; When I was 27, the ADA became law. It didn&#8217;t get me a job. But it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Columnist: ADA brings progress, but U.S. lags on jobs</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 10:26:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Albert R. Hunt, writing in Bloomberg Businessweek, says the ADA has transformed the nation and served as a model for much of the rest of the world. Still, daunting challenges remain, particularly in employment, Hunt says. Experts estimate that the real unemployment rate for people with disabilities probably exceeds 50 percent. At the same time, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Opinion: &#8216;Shameful wall of exclusion&#8217; must come down</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 05:07:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Writing in the San Jose [CA] Mercury News, Sara Triano recalls the words of President George H.W. Bush at the signing of the ADA twenty years ago. &#8220;Let the shameful wall of exclusion finally come tumbling down.&#8221; After two decades of work to end the segregation of people with disabilities, Triano says, the wall of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In New Orleans, kids with disabilities underserved by charters</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2010 16:20:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the New Orleans Times-Picayune: Charter schools in New Orleans educate about 60 percent of the city&#8217;s public school children &#8212; a higher percentage than in any major American city. But they serve a much smaller percentage of children with disabilities than traditional schools. The gap raises questions about how charters can assure equal access [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Canada ratifies UN disability rights treaty</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/03/15/canada-ratifies-un-disability-rights-treaty-28744/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 14:44:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From CBC News: Canada has ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Speaking at the UN in New York, Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon said the action underscores the Canadian government&#8217;s commitment to &#8220;promoting and protecting the rights of persons with disabilities and enabling their full participation in society.&#8221; Advocates [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Feds probe school&#8217;s use of shocks on kids with disabilities</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/02/25/feds-probe-electric-shocks-28621/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 15:47:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Boston Globe: The U.S. Department of Justice is investigating allegations that a Massachusetts school is violating federal civil rights law by using electrical skin shocks to discipline children with disabilities. The probe follows a 2009 letter of complaint signed by more than 30 disability rights groups alleging that the facility&#8217;s use of &#8220;painful [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Opinion: Open charter doors to students with disabilities</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/01/29/open-charter-doors-27420/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 06:18:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Harvard University professor Thomas Hehir, writing in Education Week, calls for action to make sure that students with disabilities have access to charter schools. Presently, he says, students with special needs are conspicuously underrepresented in such schools. Hehir, who served as director of the U.S. Department of Education&#8217;s office of special education programs in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ACLU: School violating girl&#8217;s rights by banning service dog</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/01/22/aclu-service-dog-27264/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jan 2010 02:23:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Jackson [MI] Citizen Patriot: Michigan&#8217;s chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union has accused a local school district of breaking the law by preventing a 5-year-old with cerebral palsy from bringing her service dog to school. Ehlena Fry&#8217;s parents argue that her medically prescribed, certified service dog, Wonder, must accompany her to school [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Judi Chamberlin, advocated for people with mental illnesses</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/01/19/judi-chamberlin-27227/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 17:50:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Joe Shapiro, National Public Radio: Judi Chamberlin, an outspoken advocate for the rights and dignity of people with mental illness, died of lung disease over the weekend at her home in Arlington, Mass. She was 65. Shapiro calls her &#8220;a civil rights hero from a civil rights movement you may never have heard of.&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Column: Dr. King&#8217;s work benefitted people with disabilities</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/01/15/column-mlk-disabilities-27201/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 22:15:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Writing in USA Today, Ben Mattlin says people with disabilities owe a profound debt of gratitude to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. for his work in the civil rights movement. Like African Americans, Mattlin says, people with disabilities share a history of being been held back by discrimination and low expectations. An excerpt: Make no [...]]]></description>
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