Disability History and Awareness Week - Board Resolution
SCHOOL BOARD RESOLUTION
A Resolution designating the third week of October of every year as “Disability History and Awareness Week” and encouraging our schools to provide instruction on disability history, people with disabilities, and the disability rights movement.
WHEREAS, there are approximately 126,000 students with disabilities educated by Missouri public schools; and
WHEREAS, the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 is founded on four principles: inclusion, full participation, economic self-sufficiency, and equality of opportunity for all people with disabilities; and
WHEREAS, a key method of promoting these four principles is for our schools to recognize the contributions by people with disabilities to our society and provide instruction in disability history, people with disabilities, and the disability rights movement through school curriculum, school assemblies, and other school activities; and
NOW THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the School Board of Spring Bluff R-XV that the Board urges our schools to provide intensive instruction on disability history, people with disabilities, and the disability rights movement, especially during the third week of October, and promote educational activities on those subjects.