Please Note: This guide is intended as a reference guide for foster parents (resource parents) providing foster care for children placed in their home by the New Jersey Child Protection and Permanency (DCP&P). It is not intended to offer legal advice or legal guidance.
For more information or if you have questions not answered in this guide, contact Mary Coogan, (mcoogan@acnj.org ), at Advocates for Children of New Jersey’s Kidlaw Resource Center.

Published by Advocates for Children of New Jersey
35 Halsey Street
Newark, New Jersey 07102
www.acnj.org

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Copyright © 2012 by Advocates for Children of New Jersey All rights reserved.

Parents, guardians, caregivers and school administrators will sometimes disagree over whether a student resides in a school district and can be enrolled in a district public school. The information in this manual is designed to help parents, guardians and caregivers understand the legal concepts involved in residency disputes, and to inform them of their legal rights. Effective December 17, 2001, for the first time, the New Jersey Department of Education adopted regulations governing the residency requirements for admitting students to public schools. Those regulations provide extensive procedural protections to ensure that students are not denied an education during residency disputes.

Created and Written by the Education Law Center
60 Park Place, Suite 300
Newark, New Jersey 07102
(973) 624-1815
TTY: (973) 624-4618
Fax: (973) 624-7339
E mail: elc@edlawcenter.org
Web site: www.edlawcenter.org

EDUCATION RIGHTS OF HOMELESS STUDENTS A GUIDE FOR ADVOCATES Revised 2017
There is no question that students who experience homelessness, like all students, are entitled to be educated. A federal law, known as the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act, requires states to provide homeless children and youth with the same access to free appropriate public education as is available to other students. The Act also requires states to review and revise barriers to the identification, enrollment, attendance or success in school of homeless students, to avoid the segregation of homeless students from the mainstream school environment, and to provide access to the education and services needed to ensure that homeless students have an opportunity to meet the same challenging academic achievement standards to which all students are held. 1 The federal Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), aimed at ensuring all students access to a high-quality education, requires states and local school districts to annually publish data about the academic achievement of various subgroups of students; homeless students are now a separate subgroup for which such data (including high school graduation rates) must be reported annually, enhancing the accountability of school districts serving these students.

This booklet was developed to provide educators with basic information about adoption-related issues and the effect these issues might have on students, as well as suggestions on how educators can assist and advocate for students who are adopted.

Published by:
Iowa Foster and Adoptive Parents Association
6864 NE 14 Street, Suite 5
Ankeny, Iowa 50021
800/277-8145
515/289-4567
515/289-2080 Fax
ifapa@ifapa.org E-mail

A Basic Guide to Special Education
This guide is intended as a reference for people who have questions
about special education for a child. It summarizes the basic procedures,
services and rights of children to an education and represents current
federal and state laws and regulations. It is not intended to offer advice
or legal guidance. For an expanded, legally-grounded explanation of
any aspect of the special education process, parents/caregivers should
contact Advocates for Children of New Jersey’s Kidlaw Legal Resource
Center. Staff attorneys can provide printed information and limited
personal assistance to individual parents/caregivers. Spanish
consultations are available.

Contact:
Nina Peckman, Esq. (speaks Spanish)
E-mail: npeckman@acnj.org
Phone: 973-643-3876
Fax: 973-643-9153

The Kidlaw Resource Center offers information, assistance, training and
legal publications about the rights of children. The center provides free
fact sheets, manuals and other information. Staff is available to provide
presentations and training on children’s legal rights to community
groups and professionals. Visit www.kidlaw.org for more information.

Published by Advocates for Children of New Jersey
35 Halsey Street
Newark, New Jersey 07102.
Cecilia Zalkind, President & CEO
Mary Coogan, Vice President
Robert Sterling, Chair, Board of Trustees
Copyright © 2018 by Advocates for Children of New Jersey
All rights reserved.

NJ ARCH has created a useful handbook to help you with your adoption needs. This handbook covers a very important issue in adoption – search and reunion.

To view and print an electronic, PDF version of this handbook, please click on the handbook cover to the left.

If you would like to request a hard-copy of this handbook, please contact the NJ ARCH Warm Line at 1.877.4ARCHNJ (1.877.427.2465)
or email us at warmline@njarch.org.
Please include your name, address and phone number and we will gladly send you a copy of the handbook.

NJ ARCH has created a useful handbook to help you with your adoption needs. This easy-to-read 34-page handbook covers issues in adoption including: lifelong adoption, behavioral and developmental needs, and adoption resources.

To view and print an electronic, PDF version of this handbook, please click on the handbook cover to the left.

If you would like to request a hard-copy of this handbook, please contact the NJ ARCH Warm Line at 1.877.4ARCHNJ (1.877.427.2465) or email us at warmline@njarch.org.  Please include your name, address and phone number and we will gladly send you a copy of the handbook.

NJ ARCH has created a useful handbook to help you with your adoption needs. This easy-to-read 34-page handbook covers issues in adoption including: lifelong adoption, behavioral and developmental needs, and adoption resources.

To view and print an electronic, PDF version of this handbook, please click on the handbook cover to the left.

If you would like to request a hard-copy of this handbook, please contact the NJ ARCH Warm Line at 1.877.4ARCHNJ (1.877.427.2465), or email us at warmline@njarch.org.
Please include your name, address and phone number and we will gladly send you a copy of the handbook.