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

This pamphlet is designed to help parents, guardians and caregivers understand the legal concepts and procedures involved in disputes over the enrollment of homeless students in local public schools, and to inform them of their legal rights.  In reading this information, please remember that the requirements of the McKinney Act and of the state regulations concerning the education of homeless students are intended to minimize interruptions in schooling when a student becomes homeless.

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

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, 2022 Edition

A Basic Guide to Special Education
This guide is intended to be a reference for people who have questions about the laws regarding children who have disabilities that affect their ability to learn. It summarizes the laws regarding basic procedures, services and the rights to special education, as well as other important education rights of children with disabilities, representing federal and state laws and regulations. However, this Guide is not intended to offer legal advice, nor does it substitute assistance from an attorney. For additional information or assistance regarding this Guide and the education rights of children, parents/caregivers should contact Nina Peckman, Esq. at Advocates for Children of New Jersey. Written materials are also available through ACNJ’s KidLaw Resource Center at www.kidlaw.org. This Guide is available in Spanish and Spanish consultations are available. (Esta Guía es disponible en Español y se proporcionan consultas en Español.)
Contact:
Nina Peckman, Esq. (habla Español)
Email: 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.
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35 Halsey Street
Newark, New Jersey 07102
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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 adoptionneeds. 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.