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View Comments The state Assembly gave final approval Thursday to a bill extending education services by one year for disabled students who saw critical programs frozen during the coronavirus pandemic.   The proposal, which received a rare bipartisan vote in the chamber, needs only Gov. Phil Murphy s approval to become law.   “It’s a great day. It validates the supports and services these young people have lacked and will now be able to access, said Mercedes Witowsky, executive director of the New Jersey Council on Developmental Disabilities. It gives them hope and an option not to fall off that cliff,” “Falling off a cliff” is how advocates and families of people with disabilities describe the transition to life after  21

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