by Louisa Gregory | Jul 31, 2025
Join us on Monday, August 11th at Deaconess Center in St. Louis for a Youth Provider Resource Fair. This event brings together a wide array of youth resources providers so educators, social workers and others who help area youth can gather all the information and make...
by Aaron | Jul 17, 2025 | Back to School Guide
Back-to-School Guide for Missouri Public School Students, Families, and Advocates With the pro bono assistance of Enterprise Mobility and Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP, Legal Services of Eastern Missouri’s Health and Education Justice Initiative (HEJI) has published...
by Aaron | Jul 14, 2025 | Back to School Guide
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by Aaron | Jul 14, 2025 | Back to School Guide
Since as recently as during the COVID-19 pandemic, schools have been providing technology (i.e. Chromebooks and other devices) to help students access their education. Technology continues to be provided to students even while students attend classes in-person...
by Aaron | Jul 14, 2025 | Back to School Guide
The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, otherwise known as “FERPA” affords three important rights to all students and parents of students with respect to school recordkeeping: 1) Access to Records 2) Required Consent to Release records and 3) Right to make...
by Aaron | Jul 14, 2025 | Back to School Guide
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by Aaron | Jul 14, 2025 | Back to School Guide
Children and youth who experience homelessness ― including those living in shelters, doubled-up due to economic circumstances, in temporary housing, or “couch-surfing” ― have important legal rights to education under a federal law called the McKinney-Vento Act and...
by Aaron | Jul 14, 2025 | Back to School Guide
Students in Foster Care Students in foster care have the right to a free public education. Under the Every Student Succeeds Act, foster children can remain in their current school even if their living situation changes. If staying in the same school is not in their...
by Aaron | Jul 11, 2025 | Back to School Guide
First Steps: The rights of students with disabilities begin at birth. Missouri First Steps coordinates services across the state for students up until their third birthday. After an evaluation, First Steps services are provided in an Individualized Family Service...
