Student Advocacy Center of Michigan
Gratitude Report 
Have you seen our 2019-2020 Annual Report yet? We are calling it our Gratitude Report. Check out the impact YOU have had at SAC. SAC Annual Report for 2019-2020 or try a flipbook version here.
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Helpline
Call our Student Rights Helpline. Leave a message at (734) 482-0489 or email helpline@studentadvocacycenter.org for help M-F.
Helping Students Stay In School
The Student Advocacy Center of Michigan is a unique organization with a proud history of helping students get back into school and stay in school. We are fighting school pushout and dropout every day. There is no other organization like us in Michigan.
Please use this site as a resource to help students experience more success in school. Special features include pages on the rights of specific populations (including students in foster care, facing school discipline, homeless) and our Create-A-Letter resource, providing examples on how to request a special education evaluation and much more. There are also ways for you to get involved in advocating for policy change in Michigan.
Mission:
The Student Advocacy Center of Michigan works collaboratively with underserved students, and their families, to stay in school, realize their rights to a quality public education, grow and experience success.
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Demand justice for the #FortWayne3![]()
A violent white supremacist in Fort Wayne, Indiana, walked up to a car with three Black teenagers and unloaded his gun on them – killing Josh Cooper and Andy Retic and critically injuring Jaylin Rice who is now recovering in the hospital.![]()
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Sign this petition right now to demand justice and accountability for the families of the #fortwayne3. The killer, Joseph Bossard, has been charged but not with a hate crime, and has yet to be convicted.
Demand justice for the #FortWayne3
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The killer has been charged but not with a hate crime, and h...3 days ago ·
"We can’t get Black history education right because we teach about Black history instead of through Black history. Teaching about Black history has meant that schools teach from how white people imagine Black histories. Teaching through Black history should mean listening, writing, and teaching narratives from the actual historical experiences and voices of Black people.![]()
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These historical perspectives differ significantly. For instance, teaching Brown v. Board of Education through Black voices would acknowledge that many Black communities were not in favor of integrating schools, just equity in school funding. Black schools were culturally confirming, relevant, and sustaining. Integration meant transferring Black students to predominately white schools where instructional practices were culturally insensitive and racist. Black schools were closed, and many Black teachers and administrators lost their jobs. Teaching through Black history about the Brown ruling provides a critical assessment of the policy and not the federal government’s moral prerogative of racial progress."
Black History Is About More Than Oppression (Opinion)
www.edweek.org
Why can't we get Black history education right? Education pr...5 days ago ·
How much do you know about the history of policing in Detroit's schools? Learn about local history, how the school-to-prison pipeline is robbing students of their futures, and get the facts for how Detroit measures up with national data about school safety.
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General Education
Student Advocacy Center assists general education students, especially students facing school discipline and students identified as at-risk for dropping out of school.
Special Education
Student Advocacy Center can assist families with requesting special education evaluations, obtaining special education services, and improving existing special education services.
Foster Care
Student Advocacy Center has a long-standing history of working with youth in foster care. Our Foster Care Advocate helps youth with school enrollment, transportation, special education services, and reducing other barriers to school success.
That’s Not All!
We help students of all kinds, for example:
That’s Not All!
We help students of all kinds, see more examples to the right:
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