Learn why restructuring the U.S. Department of Education threatens civil rights protections, inclusive schooling, and federal accountability for students with disabilities. This one-page document outlines the risks associated with the weakening IDEA, Section 504, Title I, teacher preparation, and educational research. Additionally, we emphasize that the Department plays a central role in protecting equitable access to education.

This one-pager explains how recent Medicaid cuts and new administrative requirements put health coverage, long-term services, and community supports at risk for millions of people. It highlights how coverage losses, six-month redeterminations, and added work-reporting rules may especially harm people with disabilities, older adults, low-income families, and rural communities that rely heavily on Medicaid-funded care.

This one-pager explains cexplains how recent federal changes are cutting food assistance, shifting costs to states, and tightening work requirements in ways that especially harm people with disabilities, rural communities, and low‑income households. It highlights key data on who relies on SNAP, what’s at risk under new ABAWD rules, and how reduced benefits and lost SNAP‑Ed services increase hunger and strain local support systems. 

This HUB one-pager explains why Home and Community-Based Services (HCBS) are essential for helping people with disabilities and older adults remain in their homes and communities. It highlights the consequences of Medicaid cuts, including growing waiting lists, reduced independence, strain on families, worsening shortages in the direct-support workforce, and threats to the right to live in the least restrictive setting.

This ECRN Policy Hub one‑pager explains the Texas v. Kennedy lawsuit, in which a group of states are challenging the updated Section 504 regulations that protect people with disabilities’ right to receive services in the community rather than in institutions. It briefly defines Section 504, outlines how the lawsuit targets HHS’s 2024 integration‑mandate rule, and describes what’s at risk for students with disabilities, families, and community‑based services if the case succeeds. The handout also provides state‑by‑state contact information for the seven remaining states. If you reside in these states, we urge you to reach out to your attorneys general to withdraw from the lawsuit and defend disability civil rights.