Policy Implications of High School Reform on College and Career Readiness of Youth With Disabilities

Abstract

High school redesign (HSR) efforts currently focus on helping schools prepare all students to be college and career ready. As these initiatives are provided within the context of high schools, students with Individualized Education Programs are impacted by any effort to reform high schools. As a result, policies designed to improve the college and a career readiness (CCR) of all students should simultaneously improve the CCR of students with disabilities. The purpose of this article is to briefly describe current broad initiatives in high school reform and discuss implications for federal, state, and local policy to enable students with disabilities to fully participate in high school reforms designed to ensure that all students graduate college and are career ready.