[Senate Considers Adopting U.N. Measure Regarding Disabled People by Karla Dial] "As a first step toward ratifying a controversial United Nations resolution, the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee held a hearing today on how to care for disabled people.

According to the U.N. Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), the “best interests of the child” is the gold standard for deciding how those with disabilities are educated — and by whom, and in what setting.

If two-thirds of the senators choose to ratify it, the treaty would become binding, and supersede all existing federal and state laws concerning parental rights, said Michael Farris, chairman of the Home School Legal Defense Association, who testified at the hearing..." Full text: Senate Considers Adopting U.N Measure Regarding Disabled People Re 13:17

Senate Considers Adopting U.N. Measure Regarding Disabled People