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ADVOCATE FOR STUDENTS:
Raise a Strong Voice for Children
  • Demand accurate information about the number of and reasons for expulsions.
  • Spread the word about the negative effects of expulsion to your friends, neighbors, and co-workers.
  • Write your legislators about your concerns with public education in Michigan. Speak out about due process rights and alternatives to expulsion.
  • SAMPLE LETTER & QUICKGUIDE

    Sample Letters make communication with schools easier for parents by providing a starting point for the advocacy process.
    QuickGuides offer general explanations for understanding and retrieving information, as well as guidance in how to handle specific school-related situations.

    A Voice for Every Student Since 1975

    The Student Advocacy Center of Michigan works to assure our most vulnerable students stay in school, find success and realize their right to a quality public education. Our services include free non-legal education advocacy, fee-based advocacy, technical assistance and dropout prevention. We have a special focus on school discipline and students in foster care. Please see Education Advocacy Services for details.

     

    The Student Advocacy Center presents: "Telling Tales Out of School," a live storytelling fundraising event 6-8 p.m. Sunday, June 2 at the Performance Network in downtown Ann Arbor. A Cookies and Milk Storyteller Reception follows.



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    Video Page

    Our latest videos are now available on the web.
    Michigan's Best Kept Secret (below) and Foster Care Epidemic
    are both available on our video page.

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    What can this website do for you?

    If you are a parent or student, it can:

    • Suggest positive interventions to prevent negative situations from becoming problems.
    • Offer strategies on working and partnering with the school to relieve the problem.
    • Offer options if you and the school cannot come to an agreement on the issue and its solution.
    • Provide you with sample letters to write to the schools and administration.

    If you are a teacher or school official, it can:

    • Lend insight into the problems parents and children feel and experience.
    • Offer suggestions for better communication with families.