Many students with disabilities are assigned to a non-diploma path, sometimes as early as first grade. But are students kept from a traditional academic track because they are not capable of earning a high school diploma or because it is easier to expect less of students whose disabilities present unknowns? The Voice of San Diego examines whether or not the non-diploma path is overused.

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