Disabled People Still Have to Fight for Access
A school in Colorado blocked disabled parents from entering.
By Alison Escalante M.D., Psychology Today
Posted July 30, 2024
“After getting nowhere with the school district, Johnson reached out to the Colorado Cross Disability Coalition (CCDC), an organization run by people with disabilities for people with disabilities. They helped her connect with the LIBERTY & FREEDOM LEGAL GROUP, a nonprofit law firm that filed the federal lawsuit Johnson v Thompson R2J School District on her behalf.”
It has been thirty-four years since the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) was signed into law by President George H.W. Bush on July 26, 1990, making it an expectation in our country that disabled people have equal access to public buildings. Yet, in June 2024, a disabled mother of three in Colorado filed a federal disability discrimination lawsuit against her son’s school district after being excluded from multiple important school events during the prior year.
