A disabled student advocate wants to help his peers get along as they find themselves learning together more often under the new special education guidelines.

Bryan Stromer is an eleventh grader at NYC Lab High School, a place where he is happy and thriving. But he wound up at Lab by default, after another school that interested him could not provide the special education services he needs. Now on the Citywide Council on Special Education, he writes about his hope that the city’s upcoming changes in special education will make more schools accessible, giving students more options when choosing a high school.