NJ IDEIA 2004 Organizing
Committee
Next Meeting of NJ IDEIA 2004 Organizing
Committee
Thursday, June 23, 6:30 – 8:15 pm
Join Committee or Meeting RSVP or Confirm 100 Letter Campaign Participation
Below
Minutes of APIECE hosted IDEIA 2004
meeting on Thu., May 26
At a meeting at Mary Jacobs Library in Rocky Hill on May 26, 2005, 14 parents and education advocates met to discuss building a campaign to prevent the withering of the rights of special education students and their parents in NJ under implementation of IDEIA 2004. Those in attendance agreed to form the NJ IDEIA 2004 Organizing Committee, affiliated with A Parents' Initiative for Every Child's Education http://APIECENJ.org . (A letter will be sent to organizations throughout the state asking to help broaden the committee to a coalition of several or many organization.). If you are interested in becoming part of this campaign by joining this committee, please complete the form below.
NJ IDEIA 2004 Organizing Committee Goals
To promote the IDEIA 2004 petition at http://StudentAdvocate-NJ.org by inviting signatures face-to-face, promoting in news media, sending opinion letters to papers, calling friends, associates and colleagues and through other means.
To promote education among families of the 225,000 special education students in the state about the IDEIA 2004 changes and how they will be affected by them and how they can be involved in the effort to protect the rights of students with disabilities, their parents and guardians and to support important special education processes that can be eliminated.
To reach out to advocacy organizations, parent groups and other community organizations to formally invite them to support the petition and to otherwise state their own positions around the 11 issues of concern highlighted in the petition.
To organize approaches to and responses to the NJ Department of Education and NJ State in general as they come out with statements, positions, outreach, etc. around the IDEIA 2004 issues of concern.
To organize participation in Special Education Advisory Committee meetings and other public group activities to make our views known to the state and the public.
To organize petition signers to follow through on the tasks that they volunteered to do when they signed.
To meet on a monthly basis to assess our progress and plan out the next month of activity.
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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