EDquity Scholars

The problem

Year after year, IEPs set goals for organization, planning, and self-advocacy, and almost none of them say who will teach those skills or how.

Students sit through meetings about their own education without anyone showing them what the document says or how to speak in the room.

What our first nine audits found

Nine independent IEP audits for eight families, scored against a 54-condition rubric.

The paperwork clears the legal bar while the instruction it is supposed to describe goes missing.

The program

Thirty students in grades 8 through 12, together, for a full year.

July

A five-day intensive makes the cohort.

Sept to May

Nine monthly Saturdays, nine in the morning to one in the afternoon.

Two visits

Two local college visits where students meet the disability services office alongside the standard admissions tour. Dates to be confirmed.

May

A family showcase where every Scholar presents.

What students build

Students build executive function directly: planning, organization, task initiation, and self-monitoring. They learn what their own IEP says, how to ask for their accommodations in class, and how their rights change the day they graduate.

Parents attend their own workshops on the same days, so a family leaves knowing the same things.

How we know it worked

We audit every Scholar's IEP when they enroll and again in May against our 54-condition rubric, which is anchored in IDEA and in the standard the Supreme Court set in Endrew F.

The second audit is the outcome measure, and sponsors receive an annual report showing what moved.

Who runs it

Dr. Reba Clarke-Wedderburn founded EDquity at the Margins after twenty-one years as an educator and years advocating for her own children through IEP meetings. The organization delivers free independent IEP audits to families and built the 54-condition rubric the program measures against.