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04.29.2016 | DNA Info | Until this spring, only students with special needs were eligible for the alternative graduation credit program. Disabilities advocates, however, fought to expand it to all students, arguing that schools needed an incentive to bolster these career-focused programs and put more resources into them. \u201cBy limiting [this certificate] to students with disabilities, we had concerns that it would stigmatize students with disabilities,\u201d said Abja Midha, a project director at Advocates for Children.\u00a0<\/p>

Midha and other advocates have been pushing the state to create additional avenues for students to get their diplomas ever since it transitioned away from a local diploma option in favor of the Regents test-based diploma. \u201cThere was no plan focusing on how do we best serve the needs of all students or recognition that a one-size approach does not fit needs of all students who aren\u2019t good test takers,\u201d she said. 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