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Will schools be held accountable?
WASHINGTON – For a lot more than a ten years, Miguel Perez appeared to be a model student – bringing house As and Bs on his report cards, consistently producing honor roll and intently relying on the aide his university assigned to him since he is deaf. And so his mother and father were being stunned when, months in advance of graduation, they learned their son would acquire a “certificate of completion” rather than a diploma. The aide assigned by his small Michigan school district, it turned out, did not know indication language. Just after 12 decades in school, with no other incapacity, Perez was studying at a 3rd-grade amount. Perez…
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One Woman Is Holding Politicians Accountable for Nasty Speech. It’s Changing Politics.
‘The Response to Our Difficulties is Dignity’ The ballroom of the Ahern Hotel in Las Vegas was a riot of red, white and blue when Pyfer arrived for the Countrywide Federation of Republican Women’s “Stars & Stripes” conference on Veteran’s Day weekend. Some 150 women from 17 western states were there, wearing brilliant-colored blazers and buttons. Pyfer had been invited at the past moment by one of the organizers, a woman named Kari Malkovich who experienced witnessed Pyfer communicate about the Dignity Index in Utah and wished her to do the exact same issue for this crowd. Pyfer and her spouse took their seats to enjoy the speakers who would…