During the presidential campaign, Barack Obama promised a study to evaluate "access to higher education or transition to the workforce by students with disabilities," specifically "the barriers that keep students with disabilities from seeking and completing higher education; the barriers that prevent students from making a direct transition to work; the extent to which students with disabilities are able to access loans and grants; reasons college students with disabilities drop out at a higher rate; and best practices from schools that have effectively recruited and graduated students with disabilities that can be implemented more widely."

In the president's budget request for fiscal year 2010 is an extra $2 million designated for "Special Education Studies and Evaluations." The Education Department says that the new money would "fund a new study of transition and learning outcomes for students with disabilities as well as the required national assessment of activities supported with federal special education funds and other ongoing studies and evaluations of special education."
 
That budgetary increase made it into the final appropriations bill for the Education Department. The study isn't finished yet, but the funding for it qualifies this promise as In the Works.