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		<title>Obit: Paul Steven Miller, law professor and disability advocate</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Oct 2010 15:05:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the New York Times: After graduating at the top of his class at Harvard Law School in the 1980s, Paul Steven Miller was rejected by more than 40 law firms before he was able to find work. The reason: Miller was born with achondroplasia, a form of dwarfism. One hiring partner told him that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Feds sue Arkansas over segregation of people with disabilities</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 May 2010 04:29:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Arkansas Democrat Gazette (registration required), Google/AP: The federal Department of Justice has filed suit against the state of Arkansas for violating the Americans with Disabilities Act, alleging that the state illegally segregates hundreds of people with developmental disabilities. The lawsuit accused Arkansas of a &#8220;systemic failure&#8221; that places people with disabilities in large [...]]]></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>Judge orders NY to move residents out of &#8216;adult homes&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/03/01/judge-orders-ny-adult-homes-28667/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 19:47:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the New York Times: A federal judge has ordered the state of New York to move some 4,300 people with mental illness out of warehouse-like institutions that keep them segregated from society. The order by Judge Nicholas Garaufis follows his decision last fall that the state was illegally discriminating against people with mental illness [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shriver: &#8216;Retard&#8217; is the language of bigotry</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 05:52:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Timothy Shriver, writing in the Washington Post, says the word &#8220;retard&#8221; masks a prejudice that is so widespread that it goes unquestioned. People with intellectual disabilities, he says, are frequently the victims of abuse, indifference and negligent death. They face crushing unemployment, poor health care, poor living conditions and social ostracism. Changing these tragic realities [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Orleans students with disabilities face unequal treatment</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/02/02/new-orleans-students-27549/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 08:29:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Audit finds wide enrollment disparities, particularly in charter schools From the New Orleans Times-Picayune: Many public schools in New Orleans, particularly charter schools, show significant underrepresentation of students with disabilities, according to a report by state officials. At some charter schools in the Recovery School District, fewer than 4 percent of students are reported to [...]]]></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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		<title>Disability job bias claims surge to record high</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/01/07/disability-job-bias-26992/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 18:53:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From AP/ABC News, EEOC press release, EEOC data: New federal statistics show the the number of workers claiming job discrimination based on disability rose to a new record in fiscal 2009. Statistics released by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission showed that charges of disability discrimination rose by ten percent to 21,451 claims, the largest increase [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Column: &#8216;No way to refer to the vulnerable&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/12/18/siegel-intolerance-26822/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 07:33:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Writing in the Chicago Tribune, Parade Magazine publisher Randolph Siegel lists a few examples of the ways in which people with cognitive impairments are ridiculed in the national media. Here&#8217;s just one: A leading character on HBO&#8217;s &#8220;Curb Your Enthusiasm seduces a character with an intellectual disability, then belittles his victim when she speaks out. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UK charity: 9 percent of disabled people say they&#8217;re crime targets</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/11/05/hate-crime-data-25018/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 05:48:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the [UK] Guardian: In response to a survey by a UK disability charity, 9 percent of respondents with disabilities reported that they have been the victim of a hate crime. The charity, Leonard Cheshire Disability, asked respondents whether they had faced a crime which they felt was motivated by their disability. The charity said [...]]]></description>
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