No Child Left Behind (NCLB) http://www.nclb.gov/
New Jersey
Department of Education
http://www.state.nj.us/education/
The
Minority Student Achievement Network (MSAN)
MSAN is an unprecedented national coalition of 15 multiracial, suburban school districts across the United States. The Network's mission is to discover, develop and implement the means to ensure high academic achievement for students of color, specifically African American and Latino students. http://www.msanetwork.org/
The National Council
of La Raza (NCLR)
NCLR is a private, nonprofit, nonpartisan, organization established in 1968 to
reduce poverty and discrimination, and improve life opportunities for Hispanic
Americans.
http://www.nclr.org/policy/schoolalert/alert.html
(School Opening Alert)
http://www.nclr.org/policy/schoolalert/alert_espanol.html
(Llamada Urgente al
Comienzo
del Curso Escolar)
NCELA-National Clearinghouse for English Language Acquisition & Language Instruction Educational Program http://www.ncela.gwu.edu/
The ASPIRA
Association, Inc.
ASPIRA is the only national nonprofit organization devoted solely to the
education and leadership development of Puerto Rican and other Latino
youth. http://www.aspira.org
ASPIRA-New Jersey http://nj.aspira.org/
Advancement
Via Individual Determination (AVID)
AVID is a fifth grade through high school program to prepare students in the
academic middle for four-year college eligibility. These are typically students
who are first time college-goers in their families, low income and are capable
of completing rigorous curriculum but are falling short of their potential. http://www.avidonline.org/
The Civil Rights
Project (CRP)
CRP believes that equal educational opportunity is a necessary prerequisite to
equal educational outcomes, and that all students benefit from ethnically
diverse educational experiences. http://www.civilrightsproject.harvard.edu/research/k12_ed.php
National Association
for Bilingual Education (NABE)
Promoting educational excellence and equity through bilingual education, NABE is
the only national organization exclusively concerned with the education of
language-minority students in American schools. http://nabe.org/
Resources on Limited
English Proficiency
/ Recursos en Lenguaje
de Ingles Limitado
Civil
Rights Division, U.S. Department of Justice
Executive Order 13166: Improving Access to Services for Persons with Limited English Proficiency. http://www.usdoj.gov/crt/cor/13166.htm
New Jersey Immigration
Policy Network
Immigrant rights education and advocacy. http://www.njipn.org/
Legal
Services of New Jersey (LSNJ)
LSNJ strives to ensure equal access to justice under law to all people of New
Jersey, providing free legal assistance to low-income people in civil matters.
http://www.lsnj.org/index.htm (in English)
http://www.lsnj.org/espanol/index.htm (en Español)
The National Immigration Law Center
(NILC)
NILC is a national support center whose mission is to protect and promote the
rights and opportunities of low income immigrants and their family members.
NILC staff specialize in immigration law, and the employment and public
benefits rights of immigrants.
http://nilc.org/
Bureau of Citizenship
and Immigration Services
Forms, help guides, statistical information, etc. for the former INS service
divisions. http://www.immigration.gov/graphics/index.htm
National
Center for Farm Worker Health
(NCFH)A not-for-profit, multi-faceted organization dedicated to improving
the health status of farmworker families by providing information, services and
products to more than 600 migrant health center service sites in the US. These
centers exist to provide healthcare services that are culturally and
linguistically appropriate, affordable and accessible to migrant and seasonal
farmworkers and their families.
http://www.ncfh.org/index.shtml
The
Farmworker Health and Safety Institute (FHSI or the Institute)
FHSI is a unique consortium of three community-based farmworker organizations
that covers the Eastern Migrant Stream, the Caribbean and the US-Mexico Border
reaching Mexican, Puerto Rican, Haitian, Dominican, Central American and
African-American farmworkers.
http://www.age.uiuc.edu/ASH-NET/fl-nj.htm
Farm
workers, Office of
Pesticide Programs, EPA
The Web page provides information of the Worker Protection Standard Act, links
to health related information on pesticides, and additional resources on farm
worker issues.
http://www.epa.gov/oppfod01/safety/audience/farmwrkr.htm
Other resources /
Otros recursos
Social
Security Administration (SSA)
http://www.ssa.gov/ (in
English)
http://www.ssa.gov/espanol/espanol_home.html/
(en Español)
Facts
on the Hispanic/ Latino Population http://www.census.gov/pubinfo/www/hisphot1.html
For more information
contact
Janette Rodriguez
1-800-654-SPAN ext. 116