As a student with a learning disability, I was the lucky beneficiary of the creation of a cooperative agreement through educational advocacy between my home school district and the school I ended up attending from the 4th-grade onwards. The ten-mile distance that I traveled from where I was born and raised to the affluent area where I received my quality education is a glaring example of the educational inequalities in our country. Where I attended school, 99% of students graduated in the last 10 years. Back at home, however, the average graduation rate was 42% over the same time span. After I became a special education teacher as a Teach for America corps member, that fifteen minute bus ride had an even greater impact in my life. In fact, it serves as the core of my path in education reform in New York. How was it fair that I had access to resources within the school community I attended that weren't available at my home school? Ten years later - the urgency is still here. Enough was enough for me. An education, a quality one, isn’t a privilege; it is a fundamental right all, regardless of disability or zip code. We must stand shoulder-to-shoulder in not only bringing reform, but in renewing our education system. I know that through true advocacy for our children, change is possible and access to quality education can be a reality. I’m living proof of it. Let's make this a reality for all of our children.