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Beezer, Bruce – West's Education Law Reporter, 1991
Focuses on the operational meanings of the following terms--"handicapped individual,""otherwise qualified,""reasonable accommodation," and "essential functions of the job"--as developed primarily in federal court decisions concerned with employment issues associated with handicapped persons in public…
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Definitions, Disabilities, Disability Discrimination
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources. – 1987
The Guaranteed Job Opportunity Act would make major changes in federal policy on the unemployed by guaranteeing a public sector job to hard core unemployed persons until they find a job in the private sector. Part two of the testimony for this bill was given to a joint session of the Senate Subcommittee on Employment and Productivity and the…
Descriptors: Black Employment, Disabilities, Employment Opportunities, Employment Problems
Martin, Edwin – 1978
The history of educational programming for the handicapped has unfortunately been one of quiet discrimination. This pattern has come from the evolution of an isolation-based society. Society is moving increasingly toward the human and equity-based treatment of disabled people. Reflecting some court decisions, the Education of the Handicapped Act…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Curriculum Development, Disabilities, Educational Change