For Students and Families
EDquity Scholars
A free six-week virtual course for college-bound high school juniors and seniors with an Individualized Education Program (IEP) or a Section 504 plan. Scholars learn how their rights change after graduation and how to advocate for themselves in college, because in college, the student carries the file.
All sessions are virtual and live. A parent orientation opens the course.
Inaugural cohort
January 12 to February 23, 2027
Format
Six weekly 75-minute virtual sessions
Seats
Limited, first come, first served
Cost to families
Free. Every seat is sponsored.
Why This Course Exists
The IEP does not go to college.
The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act ends at high school graduation. College runs on different laws, Section 504 and the ADA, and under those laws no one is required to find the student, evaluate the student, or write a program for the student. The student must disclose their disability, provide documentation, and request accommodations themselves.
The same shift catches students with 504 plans, whose high school plan does not follow them to campus either. Most students are never taught that the rules change, and their families find out after the first bad semester. This course teaches it before graduation, while the high school team can still help.
What students leave with
How their rights and supports change the day they graduate
What to request from their IEP or 504 team before graduation
How to register with a college disability services office and what documentation it will ask for
How to talk about their disability and request accommodations in their own words
Executive function systems that hold up without a case manager checking in
A one-to-one review of their own IEP transition file with our reviewer
Every student builds a capstone transition portfolio across the six weeks: their documentation, their accommodation requests, their disclosure script, and their plan, in one place they own.
The inaugural cohort schedule
The inaugural cohort begins in January and meets live on Tuesday evenings. Additional cohorts open later in the year as seats are funded, so a request that arrives after the inaugural cohort fills is confirmed for the next cohort. Seats are limited, and requests are confirmed by email on a first-come, first-served basis.
How seats are funded
Every seat is sponsored, and seats are always free to students. A seat costs $600 to deliver, sponsorships fund the seats across the year's cohorts, and we confirm seats as sponsorships are secured, so families can request a seat with no cost and no obligation. No payment is ever collected from families.
Individuals, businesses, and funders can sponsor an EDquity Scholar for $600 or sponsor several Scholars at once. Email info@edquityatthemargins.org to sponsor, or give through our donation page and note "EDquity Scholars" with your gift.
Reserve a seat
Seats are limited and confirmed on a first-come, first-served basis. Submitting this form requests a seat in the next available cohort; we confirm every seat by email, and nothing is ever due from your family.