The Preamble

The Preamble

The War on “Woke” Comes for Disabled Students

Education Department grants are being cut arbitrarily

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Leondra Hanson
Oct 08, 2025
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Mark Dunning’s daughter was born unable to hear. “We spent nearly a decade learning how to cope with deafness, with the emotional impact of having your dreams, desires, wishes for your newborn child dramatically adjusted,” he said. But the family adapted, and by the time Mark’s daughter was eight, “our lives had simply grown over the wound of the diagno…

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