All students, including undocumented students, have a right to access public education. Have your rights as a student been violated?

EJA, in partnership with other organizations, wants to provide students and parents with the support needed to submit and monitor formal complaints about their rights being violated in a North Carolina public school.

Plyler v. Doe is still the law of the land and your rights matter. 

What is Plyler v. Doe?

In 1975, Texas passed a law that denied state funding for the education of undocumented students and allowed local school districts to deny enrollment to undocumented children. Two years later, the Tyler Independent School District adopted a policy of requiring any foreign-born children who were not “legally admitted” to the United States to pay tuition. Undocumented
students then filed a class action lawsuit challenging the policy. In 1982, the Supreme Court ruled that states could not deny students a free public education because of their immigration
status.

Formal complaints can be filed for many reasons, including:

• Public school denying admission to a student during initial enrollment or at any
  other time on the basis of their undocumented status
• Public schools treating a student differently to determine residency
• Public schools engaging in any practices that would “chill” the right to access public
  schools
• Public schools requiring students or parents to disclose or document their
  immigration status
• Public schools making inquiries of students or parents intended to expose their
  undocumented status
• Public schools requiring Social Security numbers from all students, as this may
  expose an individual’s undocumented status