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Wheelchair logo is active at Durango schools

Students at Durango High School proposed a more active logo to depict disability. The new logo will be installed in school district parking lots May 12. The city of Durango has expressed interest in changing its logo, as well, in downtown parking lots.

Students at Durango High School involved in a project around disability issues have adopted a change in the standard wheelchair access logo that has caught the attention of school and city officials alike.

The logo depicts an active instead of a passive figure that is being used across the country.

May 12 is the day the new logo will be applied on parking lot slots at Durango and Big Picture high schools, Miller Middle School, Needham, Riverview and Park elementary schools and the Durango School District 9-R administrative offices.

The standard logo, required by the Americans with Disabilities Act, will remain on signs on posts.

The new icon will not violate ADA regulations, said Julie Popp, a Durango School District 9-R spokeswoman, In Colorado, the ADA access symbol need appear only on signs, not necessarily on the ground.

Popp, who is the district representative to the city of Durango’s multimodal transportation division, said the city has shown interest in changing the ADA logo in its downtown parking lots.

Students involved in the disability issues project will supply the materials and labor. Parking spaces bearing the old logo must be blocked with cones May 12.

Jennifer Johnson, an English teacher at DHS has about 30 students involved in a project looking at issues for the disabled. The students are freshmen enrolled in an expeditionary-learning unit – an approach to pedagogy that focuses on hands-on, participatory activities.

daler@durangoherald.com



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