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  • To promote promising practices among sites as well as with local, state, and federal policymaking organizations.


  • To encourage cooperation among federal, state, and local agencies to promote technology based careers for young people with all types of disabilities.


  • To build statewide collaborative partnerships with public and private organizations that will promote HS/HT.


  • To document that HS/HT is an effective tool to improve outcomes for youth with disabilities, to reduce the number of high school dropouts, to increase the participation rate in post-secondary education, and to create less dependence on income support programs.


  • To increase the pipeline of qualified young people for the high tech workplace of tomorrow.


  • To ensure that youth with disabilities are exposed to careers in high tech industries by building coalitions and collaborative partnerships among state and local departments of education, workforce development organizations, community-based organizations, advocacy entities, and other public and private sector community resources.


  • To use the HS/HT design to provide both in-school and extracurricular opportunities for youth with disabilities.


  • To improve education and training outcomes for youth with disabilities.
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