May is National Foster Care Month — and a time to reflect on changes that our state needs to make. Students who experience foster care deserve a robust public education and support to graduate, don’t you agree? In Michigan, though, we see these students being left...
Michigan has returned to a tired playbook of criminalizing youth in schools — but we know there are better ways forward. And YOU can help! What is going on? We are seeing increasingly more punitive approaches from schools. When we look at expulsion data from last...
It’s time to celebrate YOU, our community of supporters and partners. You have had such an amazing impact on students and families in southeast Michigan and around the state. We served more students than we ever have, but sustained the deep work we do in...
On Friday, May 13, 2022, we gathered for our annual event, Telling Tales Out of School. Thank you to everyone who enjoyed the evening with us, live in Ann Arbor or through the livestream! Watch all the videos from Telling Tales 2022...
BY PERI STONE-PALMQUIST This month is my 10-year anniversary working at Student Advocacy Center and I can’t help but be nostalgic as I reflect back. I was not looking for a new job when approached to apply at SAC. I was happy working part-time at the Washtenaw...
Our hearts are broken here at Student Advocacy Center after LaRonte Benion-Phillips was shot and killed just weeks after his 18th birthday — just months shy of walking across the stage to receive his diploma. We met LaRonte when he was just 14 and spent hours...
