By Nina Peckman, Staff Attorney What kinds of questions should you ask at the school meeting to assess your child’s progress and to request help for your child? What information does the Start Strong assessment result say about my child? How are these results guiding the instruction that my child is getting? What are my […]
Author: Catherine Felegi2
Beginning a New Year: State Child Care Payment Practices Update
Thanks to the New Jersey Legislature and Governor Murphy, a bill was passed and signed into law in late December requiring child care subsidy payments based on a program’s enrollment, rather than on attendance, to continue. Child care providers throughout the state are beginning the new year with a sigh of relief as a steady […]
Thanks For Celebrating With Us!
As 2021 comes to a close, we look back on yet another successful year of educating our policymakers and advocating for the wellbeing of New Jersey’s children. Last year, we worked with the state to combat our Black maternal mortality crisis, advocated for universal home visiting and preschool for all, put the state’s kids and their […]
Pandemic Stress: Supporting the Early Childhood Workforce
By Hannah Korn-Heilner and Nya Earrusso During the week of October 18, 2021, ACNJ, along with partners from the Think Babies and Pritzker infant mental health workgroup, held Celebrate Babies Week, an initiative of the Association for Infant Mental Health to bring awareness to the needs of our youngest children. This year’s theme was “Sustaining […]
Derechos y Protecciones Contra el Acoso y Intimidación Escolar (HIB)
Este video explica las leyes relacionadas con el acoso y la intimidación escolar para que los padres pueden ayudar a su hijo, sea víctima de intimidación en la escuela o sea participante en la intimidación o acoso de otro estudiante. ***** (This video in Spanish, explains the laws regarding harassment, intimidation and bullying so that parents can advocate for their child, whether the child is a target of bullying or has engaged in bullying.)
