"The majority of kids in school with disabilities, you would never know had a disability," said Mary Jacob, Executive Director of the Statewide Louisiana Parent Training and Information Center. "These are kids with learning disabilities. These are kids with things like dyslexia or ADHD."
According to the Louisiana Developmental Disabilities Council, in 2012, 39% of Louisiana students with disabilities dropped out of school.
"We're expecting all of those children to perform just like our children without disabilities or beyond a non-diploma track where they count for nothing and they can't get a diploma," said the President of the Louisiana Association of Special Education Administrators, Laureen Mayfield.
House Bills 993 and 1015, written by St. Tammany Parish Representative John Schroder and Baton Rouge Senator Dan Claitor, aim to change that.
"Working to the highest standards that the people closest to them know they can work to and they achieve it. Why shouldn't they have the recognition that they deserve?" asked Cindy Arceneaux, Project Director for the Statewide Louisiana Parent Training and Information Center
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