Advocacy
Check this page regularly for alerts about legislation that will affect you and your ESL and bilingual students. Alerts will first be sent to the e-mail list and then linked to this page. Below are links for contacting your legislators.
NJTESOL/NJBE Statements and Testimony
- NJTESOL/NJBE Restorative Justice Statement
- English Learners in NJ Exposing Inequities and Expanding Opportunities in the Wake of the Pandemic – Nov. 2021 Executive Summaries and Press Releases in Six Languages
- Statement on Postponing ACCESS for ELLs testing
- Statement Against Bigotry, Harassment, and Bullying
- Students’ Mental Health Bills
- Position Statement on A-5126 Testing for Learning Loss
- Comments on the proposed changes to the Special Education Code
- Comments on the Adult Education Code
- Testimony on A4225 Professional Licenses for immigrants
- Statement of Solidarity against Anti-Black Racism
- Testimony to NJDOE re: Perkins Grant & Comprehensive Local Needs Assessment Dec., 4, 2019
- Advocacy & Policy Summit, Oct. 12, 2019, Updates, Concerns, Legislation, and Information
- Graduates from other countries – NJ public schools
- Testimony to the State Board of Education, Sept. 2019: Equity Concerns for English Learners
- Position Statement on Family Separation and Hate Speech
- Testimony to the State Board of Education, May 1, 2019
- Immigration Policies That Merit Review
- An Approach to Recruitment of Bilingual, Dual Language and ESL Professionals
- Position Statement on Language Rights
Resources: The Rights of Our Immigrant Students and Their Families
- NJ Consortium for Immigrant Children (NJCIC)
- Advisory to Nonprofit Organizations and Social Service Providers Regarding Immigration Enforcement
- From Rutgers: Immigrants Rights Toolkit for NJ Manual – Para los Derechos de Immigrantes en NJ
- From NJPSA (New Jersey Principals and Supervisors Association) Guidance and Resources – The Civil Rights Division of the DOJ
- Fact Sheets: Protecting Access to Education for Unaccompanied Children and Migratory Children
- Legal Education and National Outreach: Protecting the Rights of Undocumented Students
- AFT (American Federation of Teachers) Rights for Immigrant Students English / Spanish
- Family Reunification Task Force for families separated between 2017-2021