Media ContactLisa Ramirez, Communications Director, lramirez@mylegalaid.org
Gov. Tim Walz on Friday told MPR News that new clarifications of the state’s student prone law have helped local police agencies and school districts reset contracts for school resource officers.
Measured, reasoned and supported with facts from published studies and reports, Legal Aid submitted a commentary by Maren Hulden supporting legislation limiting use of prone restraints on students.
School resource officers can do their jobs just as well without the use of dangerous restraints.
Legal Aid is seeking to get the word out to certain special education students that they are now entitled to resume instruction they lost out on when the state prematurely ended their educational services.
“I’ve known attorneys to be blunt. They want to get things done quickly because their time is so valuable. But the attorneys with Legal Aid were not like that. When I arrived, they started light. They made jokes and they were so positive.”
Read how Mary Kaczorek and Julia Zwak, attorneys with Mid-Minnesota Legal Aid Housing unit helps one determined tenant fight for his living rights.
As an attorney, he won landmark legal advances for people with disabilities.
In this episode we talk with Anna Phearman, Public Health Advocate with the Minnesota Disability Law Center. We discuss her fierce advocacy for the disability community and how she has dedicated her career to addressing the inequities faced by members of the disability community, herself included.
About “$400 million a year from taxpayers (are) being invested, … a part of Gov. Tim Walz’s ‘mission to make Minnesota the best state in the country for kids to grow up’.”
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