An article in the Los Angeles Timesreported yesterday that the Los Angeles Unified School District is prepping a large cutback in funding for students with disabilities.
A big victory came last week for advocates in the intellectual disability community: a Senate committee approved a measure that removes the words "mental retardation" and "mentally retarded" from federal education, health, and labor laws. "Intellectual disability" and "individual with a mental disability" will replace the old terms.
“Venezuela’s financial support for state sponsors of terrorism is evident by Chávez’s extensive support of the Castro regime in Cuba, which is calculated to amount to $1 billion a year.”
The authors of that statement?
The progressive community took a loss this past January with the death of historian Howard Zinn — college professor, World War II bombardier, and author of the renowned “A People’s History of the United States.” Zinn was a relentless critic of war, inequality and injustice wherever he saw it.
Junior Ashley Joyce has added her voice to the exploding debate on Alex Knepper's misogynistic diatribe in AU's student paper, The Eagle. Knepper's editorial has received a lot of attention (see below for links) and created a vocal and active backlash on campus from women's rights advocates. For more on that, check out the Campus Campaign for Consent.
Keep your eyes peeled for the Spring '10 issue of AWOL with a print version of Ashley's article. You can also read it online here.
Jen Calatone's (Eagle Editor-in-Chief) and Charlie Szold's (Managing Editor for News) responses
Health care reform is pretty much in the bag. President Barack Obama was triumphant in at least getting a bill passed, and folks on the left seem to have come to some consensus that hey, at least it's better than nothing.
But over at The Progressive, Matthew Rothschild is having none of it. "Seems to me that Obama played us all for fools," he writes.
In mainstream politics, there has always been an aversion to speaking in terms of “class.” Any discussion of class is slandered as too leftist, too smacking of Marxism to be taken seriously by Democrats and Republicans.
Embattled South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford made headlines this summer with his opposition to the federal stimulus touted by President Barack Obama and Democrats in Congress.
