[blindLaw] From last month: U.S. Attorney’s Office Reaches ADA Settlement with Educational Testing Service

Nightingale, Noel Noel.Nightingale at ed.gov
Wed Jan 4 16:36:15 UTC 2023


https://www.justice.gov/usao-nj/pr/us-attorney-s-office-reaches-ada-settlement-educational-testing-service

excerpt:


The settlement resolves allegations that Educational Testing Service (ETS), a New Jersey non-profit organization that administers standardized tests, engaged in discrimination in violation of the ADA by creating unlawful hurdles to individuals with disabilities who sought testing accommodations. Among other things, the United States alleged that ETS unlawfully denied requests for testing accommodations or failed to timely consider requests for testing accommodations, effectively denying those requests.

Under the settlement, ETS agrees to comprehensive reforms that will require timely determinations on any requests for testing accommodations and narrow the organization’s inquiries related to requests for accommodations. ETS also agrees to pay damages to several complainants – up to $10,000 – who sought testing accommodations that were denied or delayed.




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