Documents Tagged ‘California School for the Blind’
Beyond School Walls
Archive Entry Date: 03/10/80
Blind Berkeley teen knows how to navigate independently around town, but moving schools threatens his years of mobility training.
Robbing the Blind
Archive Entry Date: 03/24/82
Disability Rights Activist, Ken Stein, speaks at a Berkeley City Council meeting
Whose Fault?
Archive Entry Date: 08/81
How Cal bent science and the law to push out the Schools for the Deaf and Blind -- and how blind activists kept pushing back
Blind, Deaf Students Protest Relocation
Archive Entry Date: 01/04/80
Students and staff at the School for the Blind protested their new school's rural, secluded location in Fremont
A Last Ditch Effort to Stop Schools’ Move
Archive Entry Date: 01/04/80
Teachers for the School of the Blind led media on a tour of the new site to demonstrate its unsuitability
A Coordinated Appeal to 60 Minutes to Investigate
Archive Entry Date: 12/23/79
Advocates for the Schools for the Deaf and the Blind reached out to 60 Minutes, lobbying for an investigative report
UC Designs on Deaf-Blind Site Span 57 Years
Archive Entry Date: 11/29/1979
Part one of a two-part exposé of UC Berkeley's scheme to acquire the land
Fremont Worse for Deaf/Blind?
Archive Entry Date: 11/07/79
A harsh irony: the new site, in Fremont, was more earthquake-unsafe than the old site bordering Cal
Request to Keep the Blind School Anywhere Near Berkeley
Archive Entry Date: 1973
Letters between CSB advocate John Di Francesco and CA Dept. of Education's Wilson Riles