<div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Disability Rights New Jersey</strong> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:advocate@disabilityrightsnj.org">advocate@disabilityrightsnj.org</a>></span><br>Date: Tue, Mar 25, 2025 at 2:55\u202fPM<br>Subject: Call to Action: Tell Congress to Oppose Destroying the Department of Education! \U0001f44e<br>To: <<a href="mailto:lindamelendez220@gmail.com">lindamelendez220@gmail.com</a>><br></div><br><br><u></u>
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<span style="color:rgb(24,111,143);font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:28px">Save The Department of Education</span><span style="color:rgb(24,111,143);font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:27px"><span>\ufeff</span></span>
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<p style="margin:0"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:24px;font-weight:bold">Tell Congress: Oppose Destroying the </span></p>
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<p style="margin:0"><span style="font-size:16px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif">The Department of Education plays a critical role ensuring that schools meet their legal obligations to provide public education for students with disabilities. With its elimination, families will be forced to navigate a patchwork of state policies, many of which lack the funding and infrastructure to effectively support students with disabilities. </span></p>
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<p style="margin:0"><span style="font-size:16px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif">Further, the Department of Education enforces the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act. Without robust enforcement of these critical laws, students with disabilities will experience more discrimination, inadequate accommodations and services, and a rollback of their hard-fought rights. </span></p>
<p style="margin:0"><span style="font-size:16px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif">We need you to tell Congress to do their duty and save the Department of Education for students with disabilities who need their rights protected! Please take action to save the Department of Education now.</span></p>
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<table class="m_90499445496261146image m_90499445496261146image--float-right m_90499445496261146scale m_90499445496261146image--mobile-scale m_90499445496261146image--mobile-center" align="right" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="float:right"> <tbody><tr> <td class="m_90499445496261146hide" width="15" height="1" align="center" valign="top" style="height:1px;line-height:1px;padding:0px"> <img alt="" width="15" height="1" border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" src="https://imgssl.constantcontact.com/letters/images/sys/S.gif"> </td> <td class="m_90499445496261146image_container m_90499445496261146scale m_90499445496261146stack" align="right" valign="" style="padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:10px"> <table class="m_90499445496261146text" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="table-layout:fixed"> <tbody><tr> <td class="m_90499445496261146text_content-cell" style="text-align:center;font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:#403f42;font-size:14px;line-height:1.2;display:block;word-wrap:break-word;padding:0" align="center"> <img style="display:block;height:auto;max-width:100%" width="200" src="https://files.constantcontact.com/7b07989b001/7f769360-d3c6-4ca4-971d-d67c1356e16b.png?rdr=true" alt=""> </td> </tr> </tbody></table> </td> </tr> </tbody></table> <h3 style="font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:#717a80;font-size:18px;font-weight:bold;margin:0"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Why the Department of Education is Important for Students with Disabilities</span></h3>
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<ul><li><span style="font-size:15px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">IDEA funding to states and school districts is provided from a Congressional appropriation. These funds must continue regardless of the dismantling of the U.S. Department of Education.</span></li></ul>
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<ul><li><span style="font-size:15px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">Department of Education provides essential funding to state education agencies and local school districts through its grant making and contracting activities. These activities and funds may be delayed, reduced or terminated due to the dismantling of Department of Education and would significantly deplete the ability of states and school districts to support teachers, educators, staff, and students.</span></li></ul>
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<ul><li style="font-size:15px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:15px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">Department of Education provides essential funding for educational research activities that support students with disabilities and students without disabilities. These activities and funds may be delayed or terminated due to the dismantling of Department of Education and would significantly decrease the ability of states and school districts to support teachers, educators, staff, and students.</span></li></ul>
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<ul><li><span style="font-size:15px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">Department of Education conducts compliance reviews of state education agencies. It is unclear how this function would be performed due to the dismantling of Department of Education and would result in the loss of necessary oversight and accountability.</span></li></ul>
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<ul><li style="font-size:15px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:15px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">Department of Education, through its Office for Civil Rights (OCR), investigates allegations of disability discrimination in public schools. OCR may be moved to a different agency and its staffing and priorities may be changed due to the dismantling of Department of Education and would result in the loss of necessary oversight and accountability.</span></li></ul>
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<ul><li><span style="font-size:15px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">Department of Education announces policy interpretations on IDEA, Section 504, and other federal laws. These policy interpretations do not have the force or effect of law but serve to indicate the agency\u2019s approach to understanding and implementing those laws. Recent policy interpretations stand to reduce and not protect disability rights.</span></li></ul>
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<ul><li><span style="font-size:15px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">Congress has proposed legislation to move IDEA oversight to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), which promotes the medical model of disability, thus, opening the door to stigmatizing, segregating, and \u201cothering\u201d children with disabilities instead of supporting and recognizing the natural experience of having a disability.</span></li></ul>
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<ul><li><span style="color:rgb(45,44,46)">We aggressively investigate reports of abuse and neglect wherever a person with a disability may be receiving services.</span></li></ul>
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<ul><li><span style="color:rgb(45,44,46)">We thoroughly monitor facilities and community-based programs to ensure that people living in those facilities and using those services are free from abuse and neglect, and that their rights are not violated.</span></li></ul>
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<ul><li><span style="color:rgb(45,44,46)">We provide legal representation, without charge, to people with disabilities in cases that fall within our areas of assistance.</span></li></ul>
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<ul><li><span style="color:rgb(45,44,46)">We are dedicated to providing education, training, and technical assistance to people with disabilities, their families and advocates, the agencies that service them, and policy makers among others.</span></li></ul>
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<ul><li><span style="color:rgb(45,44,46)">We provide state-of-the-art access to information and advice about assistive technology.</span></li></ul>
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