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Домашня сторінка / Альбоми / Curb Cuts & early education battle 23
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- ADAPT (68)
A young man (Randy Horton) sits in a motorized wheelchair. He is looking off to his right. He holds a big black ball and chain in his lap and on the ball is a sign that says "discrimination." Taped to his legs is a poster that reads "and justice for all?" - ADAPT (65)
The Denver Post Friday, August 19, 1977 The Voice of the Rocky Mountain Empire vol. 86 number 19 15 cents, 76 pages PHOTO by Kenn Bislo: Medium close up of a young woman (Debbie Tracy) in a power wheelchair holds her hands to her face. Eyes closed behind her glasses, she smiles. Three women around her, mostly out of the picture frame, grasp her chair and her shoulders and smile their congratulations. Caption reads: HAPPY WITH DECISION. Debbie Tracy claps her hands to her cheeks in relief after the Denver School Board voted 4-3 to let her continue to attend Boettcher School for the handicapped. Miss Tracy, a cerebral palsy victim, had been denied right to continue school at Boettcher because she had passed the age of 21. The board's action Thursday night would allow her to attend one semester while legal action is pending. (See story and photo page 3) - ADAPT (60)
Thursday, November 13, 1986 THE IRVING DAILY NEWS Page 1 [Headline] Curb cut policy called 'slap in the face' Continued from Page 1 Installation of the ramps would cost utility companies $300-500 over the costs of the work being done, he said. The city would have to change the present ordinance if utility companies are expected to install the ramps, he said. The additional costs arise in most cases because both utility companies and the city tear out only a portion of the sidewalk corner. In order to install a ramp, 14-15 feet of the corner must be torn out, said Lewis Patrick, director of Public Works. But Thomas and other handicapped representatives present at the meeting said some action must be taken by the city, either to change its policy or correctly interpret the policy. "It is the ultimate in stupidity and asininity to tear down a structure and re-create it with as much of a barrier for the disabled as existed before," Thomas said. The lack of action by the city is a "slap in the face, a spit in the face and the ultimate insult," he said. "It says to the handicapped, 'We don't want you around.' Without the ramps, transportation does us no good." Thomas said every corner in the city without a curb cut needs to have a ramp installed. His argument apparently was convincing to City Council members, who agreed to look into the current ordinance to see if changes are needed. "It appears to me as time goes on whether we choose to accept or resist changes, they're going to come about," Councilman Jack Nulty said. "It would behoove the city in the long run to try to be ahead of the game and lay the curbs. It is inevitable that it will have to be done be, cause of the growth in the handicapped population." Nulty said that any work being done on a curb at an intersection, warrants installation of a ramp. The city can come up with the extra funding that will be needed, he said. Council members agreed that the ordinance could bear some examination. "We need to look into an ordir nance change so that the curb can be done right while we're already doing the work," Councilwoman Fran Bonilla said. - ADAPT (74)
[Headline] Citizens call for curb cuts By Karen Sykes Daily News Staff Advocates of rights for handicapped citizens appeared before the Community Services committee Wednesday to make an emotional plea for construction of access ramps at intersections in the city. The issue came to the attention of the city after Danny Thomas, president of the Irving Chapter of the Handicapped Association of Texas, told city officials that a city ordinance was being violated. "There seems to be some problem interpreting (the city ordinance requiring handicapped access ramps)," Thomas said. "All of us who worked toward getting that ordinance drawn and passed believed, and still believe, that the ordinance calls for construction of a curb is replaced, regardless of whether as maintenance or new construction." Streets Administrator Wilburn Hinkle said the city ordinance calls for the installation of ramps only on request or during new construction or reconstruction of sidewalks. Access ramps are not installed when maintenance work is being done, he said. The Department of Public Works is following that policy, which is effective in placing ramps where they are most needed and maximizing city funds, he said. Thomas said numerous sidewalks at intersections in the city are being repaired, constructed or reconstructed but ramps are not being installed. However, much of that work is being done by utility companies, which are not required to install ramps, Hinkle said. - ADAPT (71)
[Headline] Disabled Persons Back Debbie By Fred Gillies Denver Post Staff Writer About 30 seriously disabled persons participated Wednesday in a demonstration on behalf of a cerebral palsy victim who has been told she cannot continue her education in a special education facility operated by Denver Public Schools. The demonstration at the schools' administration building, 900 Grant St, was on behalf of Debbie Tracy, 21, whose first chance at an education was provided two years ago when she was enrolled in special-education classes at Denver's Boettcher School. Recently, Denver Public Schools officials indicated that Debbie wouldn't be permitted to return to the school this fall because she is over age 20. Under Colorado's handicapped Children's Act, the state's public schools are obliged to provide an appropriate education for disabled persons aged 5 through 20 only, the school officials noted. Main Speaker at the demonstration Wednesday was Mrs. Elaine Jacoby, Debbie's mother. Mrs. Jacoby insisted that Denver public schools have a moral, if not a legal, obligation to provide an education for Debbie until she acquires the basic skills needed to take care of herself. Mrs. Jacoby also pointed out that Debbie had proved her potential for an education after 15 years of deprivation. "For the past two months," Mrs. Jacoby said, "I have been in contact with the Denver Public School Administration and the School Board in an attempt to keep Debbie in the system. Their response has consistently been that they have no legal obligation to her even though they provide 15 years of education to other children and even through a law was passed in Colorado in 1975 making clear the schools' obligation to disabled children between the ages of 5 and 20". Existing laws, Mrs. Jacoby emphasized, "reflect an acknowledgment of past wrongdoing and a willingness to correct the situation." She also noted that she isn't asking for the taxpayers to finance Debbie until she is prepared for college. "However, I feel that the Denver Public Schools owe Debbie more than two years of very basic education before they throw her out into society," Mrs. Jacoby said. After Mrs. Jacoby presented her statement, John Rankin, coordinator of instruction for Denver Public Schools, told her that he would do his best to arrange for her to meet with Dr. Joseph E. Brzeinski, Denver school superintendent. Also speaking informally Wednesday with Mrs. Jacoby was Theodore White Jr., director of the schools' department of special education. - ADAPT (73)
- ADAPT (70)
This is a continuation of the story in ADAPT 69 and the complete text of the story is included there for easier reading. - ADAPT (72)
This text is a continuation of the story in ADAPT 67, and the entire story is included there for easier reading.