College disability rights case could go to Supreme Court — a possibility advocates fear
by Colleen Shalby, Los Angeles Times
Mar 02, 2022
3 minutes
LOS ANGELES — Roy Payan and Portia Mason, both blind, needed help from their community college: audio recordings of texts, computer screen reading software, classroom materials in a format they could understand, when lecture notes on a whiteboard are the norm.
The students said the college was unprepared to support them and failed to provide the timely accommodations to which they were legally entitled. In 2017, they and the National Federation of the Blind filed a lawsuit against the Los Angeles Community College District, alleging discrimination under federal laws that guarantee equal access to education for those who are
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