Student Advocacy Center of Michigan

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.

SUPPORT SAC

Support the Student Advocacy Center in our stuggle to protect the educational rights of students.

The Student Advocacy Center (SAC) was established in 1975 to focus on the educational experience of students; to identify successful practices and policies as well as the barriers to effective service.

Using a strengths-based approach, the Student Advocacy Center works in partnership with families and schools to promote educational practices that result in success for students, as well as to challenge those exclusionary policies that may have a harmful impact on students and families.

Our advocates, who are not employees of the schools or the government, work to assure equal opportunity and excellent education for all children.

SAC provides a full range of services: free individual case advocacy, technical assistance, and training for parents, students, and professionals about children’s educational entitlements and due process rights in Michigan.

The Student Advocacy Center of Michigan is the only independent organization in Michigan providing free, non-legal advocacy to students (and their parents) who are eligible for general and special public education programs.

New 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.

4:10 minutes

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.

NEW YOUTH PROGRAM!
Students Advocating for Students

Students Advocating for Students is a diverse group of students, ages 14-18, who address the needs of other students and research issues in the public school system to develop strategies to make positive changes

Provide a voice for Michigan's school students.
Create a replicable model for positive school environments.
Improve the graduation rates of low income and vulnerable populations.
Educate students about their rights.
Help The Student Advocacy Center of Michigan address the important issues facing students in today’s world.