Alison Barkoff

Rule Changes

Helping states codify integration mandates into state law

For nearly 50 years, federal rules required programs that take federal money to serve disabled people in the 'most integrated setting' possible. On September 28, a federal judge stripped that requirement from Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, after the Justice Department declined to defend its own regulations and sided with the states challenging them.

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