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Bill was reported from committee in March 2019, but did not pass the House. This bill would have secured $2 million to support courses for resident full-time students enrolled in comprehensive transition and postsecondary (CPT) programs in North Carolina. The legislation, which would be entitled "Catherine's Law", draws money from the North Carolina General Fund, and would support the three CTPs within the University of North Carolina system at UNC Greensboro, Western Carolina University, and Appalachian State University.

This paper from the University of Minnesota makes the following points:

Introduced in March 2019, this bill directs the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board to create the Texas Students with Disabilities Scholarship Program, which would provide assistance to students with disabilities at Texas public higher education institutions. To be eligible for the proposed scholarship, students must be enrolled in an associate or baccalaureate degree or a certificate program.

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The Toolkit can help you increase the opportunities for meaningful relationships between all students. This Toolkit is structured to address the challenge of friendships between students with and without disabilities in inclusive settings. It assumes as much inclusion as possible as the starting point, and it contains practical strategies to promote friendship development from there. (Because of the emphasis on friendships between students with and without disabilities, this resource may not be helpful for teachers in segregated schools where all the student have disabilities.)

Completion of career and technical education (CTE) courses and work-based learning (WBL) programs have been shown to close the career readiness gap. In this resource, the authors provide information from seven years of operating SOS, a high-quality WBL program. SOS is built on the collaboration of special education, CTE, vocational rehabilitation (VR) and the business community.

Designed by the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI), the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) is developed through the WC3 process in cooperation with individuals and organizations around the world, with a goal of providing a single shared standard for web content accessibility that meets the needs of individuals, organizations, and governments internationally. The WCAG documents explain how to make web content more accessible to people with disabilities.

The CITES website is designed to help districts implement the CITES Framework, a set of practices that enhance the development of a balanced and inclusive technology infrastructure. The work can be approached in a linear, step-by-step process beginning with Leadership and progressing through each practice. Or the Framework can be used as a “just-in-time” resource to focus on specific CITES practices most needed in the district.will create and disseminate a framework of evidence-based practices to help instructional technology and assistive technology programs at local education agencies wor

CAST's mission is to transform education design and practice until learning has no limits. Located near Boston, CAST is a nonprofit education research and development organization that created the Universal Design for Learning Framework and UDL Guidelines, now used the world over to make learning more inclusive.