• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to footer

Educación Sin Barreras NC

Education Without Barriers NC

  • Español
  • About
    • What We Do
    • Leadership Profiles
    • In the Media
  • Blog
  • Tools
    • For Parents
    • For Students
    • For Educators
    • For Allies
  • Take Action

Search Educación Sin Barreras

For Allies

Education Without Barriers NC is committed to fighting for meaningful policy change to benefit English learners and their families. Below is a listing of actions advocates can take to advance more equitable academic outcomes for students in their community.

ACTION FOR ALLIES

Develop Strategies for Equitable Family Engagement

  • Identify opportunities to provide meaningful community and parent feedback to advance academic outcomes for English learners.
  • Help develop engagement strategies to increase involvement of English learning students and their families in your local school or district.
  • Help build knowledge and understanding of school supports and services and the right to enrollment, language access, and appropriate interventions.

Advocate for Equitable Funding

  • Advocate for adequate LEP allotments.
  • Get involved in the development of your local school district’s budget, demonstrate need, and request adequate funding for ELs.
  • Advocate for increased funding for the adequate school staffin, including bilingual and bicultural office personnel, bilingual and bicultural teachers, psychologists, counselors, and speech therapists as well as other supports and services that English learners need to achieve academic success.  Additionally the need for cultural competency, language training, and Professional Development opportunities for educators.
  • Advocate for more funding for early childhood opportunities that include bilingual programs and bilingual and bicultural
  • Advocate for expanded opportunities to attend well-designed after-school programs with properly trained instructors to promote literacy achievement and academic reinforcement in their mother tongue as well as in English.
  • Advocate for expanded funding for Dual Language/Immersion and Newcomers Programs.
  • Demand increased per-pupil funding and efforts to improve the competitiveness of NC teacher pay.

Develop Programs Tailored to Local Needs

  • Partner with your local Dual Language/Immersion programs to identify needs and opportunities for community collaboration.
  • Communicate program successes and challenges to your local School Board.
  • Identify budgetary barriers preventing implementation of Dual Language/Immersion programs in your school district.
  • Learn more about the Community Schools model and inquire about local efforts underway in your school community (such as wrap around support services and community partnerships) and opportunities for alignment with this approach and statewide network of practitioners.
  • Schedule a tour with your local school or district leaders of a Dual Language/Immersion program near you to learn more.
  • Ensure local districts can provide a continuum of Dual Language/Immersion programs throughout K-5, middle, and high school by advocating for program investments and expansions

North Carolina’s Hispanic Community: 2019 Snapshot

Schools’ Civil Rights Obligations to English Learner Students and Limited English Proficient Parents

https://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/ellresources.html

Education and Law Project report: Education without Barriers

Background on Leandro v. State:

https://edlawcenter.org/news/archives/other-states/leandro-court-process-underway-to-remedy-north-carolinas-inadequate-school-funding.html

https://governor.nc.gov/issues/education/commission-access-sound-basic-education

Leandro: Where are we now? Public Schools First NC

Footer

Our Mission

Educación Sin Barreras NC / Education without Barriers NC’s mission is to foster the expansion of educational opportunities for North Carolina’s underserved English learning K-12 public school students by supporting solutions to remove the academic barriers they face while advocating for needed services, supports, investments and policy change at all levels.

Contact

info@withoutbarriersnc.org
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Twitter
  • YouTube

Key Links

For Parents
For Students
For Educators
For Allies

Copyright © 2022 Educación Sin Barreras NC · All Rights Reserved · Website by Tomatillo Design