Statewide
Mobilization for the Rights of Our Children Outside May 17 State Hearings on
Removing Our Children’s Rights!
Demonstrate Outside Department of
Education Before Hearings!
100 Riverview Plaza, Trenton, NJ
Wednesday, May 17, Rally at 1:30pm
Testify inside at 3pm
(These
times could change should the board heed our call to move this meeting into the
evening.)
MS Word 2000 Printable Hand Outs:
Mobilize for May 17 / Call On Corzine to
Accept Petition /
IDEIA 2004 Petition
Schedule Your Testimony by
Noon This Friday by calling:
(609) 292-0739
Write Letters and
Call NJ
Board of Education to:
Maintain Stay Put and
Current Manifest Determination Protections
Letters should be mailed to:
Members of the State Board of Education, New Jersey Department of
Education
State Board Office Riverview Executive Plaza, Building 100, P.O.
Box 500
Trenton, NJ 08625-0500
Faxed to: (609) 633-0267
E-mailed to: Diane Shoener, Director, State Board Office
diane.shoener@doe.state.nj.us
Commissioner Lucille Davy
Lucille.davy@doe.state.nj.us
comments6A14@doe.state.nj.us
You can call in your concerns to:
(609) 292-0739
Thousands of NJ parents and other supporters have signed petitions, written letters, testified, answered surveys and otherwise spoken out to maintain the rights, protections and important processes for NJ’s special education students. The Department of Education and the Board of Education has improved some things in response including restoration of short term objectives. While that is a tremendous victory for our children, there are still many other protections that we stand to lose.
We need to mobilize for a massive presence for the outside rally and to testify inside to send a clear message that the top administrators of the Department of Education and the members of the Board of Education are on notice and will be held accountable by an increasingly organized and engaged parent body.
We need commitments now from local organizers to recruit local parents to plan to attend and to organize transportation. We should set up car pooling arrangements and rent buses and vans. These preparations need to start immediately.
Sponsoring Organization: The NJ Student
Advocacy Union
If you can help out as an organizer, you
can commit to attend or have any questions, please write to
Advocate@StudentAdvocate-NJ.org or call 908-881-5275.
Organizations, groups and individuals wishing to co-sponsor,
participate in, speak at and otherwise help out should also contact us at the
above e-mail or phone number.
For More Information, visit:
http://StudentAdvocate-NJ.org
Ask the Advocate
NJ Complaint Form (MS Word)
(PDF)
On Line Public Hearing on IDEIA 2004
Survey on NJ OSEP Complaint
Process
Past Activities
IEP Wkshp
Rec. Programs for
those w/ Disabilities
An Evening of Educational Advocacy
September 8, 2005 Edison, NJ
What The Student Advocate Has Done for Our Children
Lately . . .
NJ IDEIA 2004 Organizing Committee
Minutes of IDEIA 2004 meeting on Thu., May
26
Student Rights Radio
Discussion, October 31
Effort to
Reach Gubernatorial Hopefuls and Acting Governor / Candidates
IDEA: An Update
Dec. 5, 2005
Middletown
January 18,
2006: Hold a Candle Light for Our Children's Rights
50 Strong For Our
Children
No. Jersey Radio Interview Aired, 1/22
Petitioning for Rights Children: Legal in Princeton
Interview on NJ IDEIA Rights
- Racial Disparities in Sp-Ed
Call
is Heard in Montgomery Twp: Inclusive Recreation
NJSAU Minutes 2/18/2006
Playing and Singing for
Our Rights, 4/1/6
Better IDEA Laws for Special Education
Students?
Better IEPs? Anything is Possible!
April
1 Report: Student Advocacy Union - Fundraising Concert
Mobilization for Rights
of Our Children, May 17, 2006, Trenton
Nationwide Internet Radio Rally for Sp-Ed Parent Rights
9pm EST, Sat. May 20
Parents’ Rally @ Statehouse in Trenton Thursday, June 8, 2006
Piscataway Parents Mtg, June 19, 2006