Foster Care Youth
Every Student Succeeds Act
How Does the Every Student Succeeds Act Handle Foster Children?
The Every Student Succeeds Act makes it easier for children in foster care to stay in their original schools, but different groups have different ideas about how the costs should be covered.
College & Workforce Readiness
Foster Youth and College: How One Student Defied the Odds (Video)
Only about half of all youth in foster care in the U.S. graduate from high school, and just one in 10 enroll in college. But James Turner is defying those odds.
Families & the Community
News in Brief
Missouri District to Open Foster Home for Homeless
A Missouri district is partnering with a local agency to open a foster home for some homeless students.
School & District Management
Jennings, Mo., School District to Open Foster Home for Homeless Students
The district, which borders Ferguson, has about 200 homeless students and nearly all of its students qualify for free and reduced price meals.
Equity & Diversity
Opinion
Columbia's Escuela Nueva Model Could Work in California
International policy scholar Tom Luschei looks to Latin America for targeted interventions that work with students in poverty. Colombia's Escuela Nueva could benefit our children, he says.
Education
'The Fosters' Returns to Tackle New Challenges of a Blended Family
The ABC Family channel show about a blended family of biological, adopted, and foster children of biracial lesbian parents addresses topics that include education.
School & District Management
Opinion
Foster Youth Not Yet Making the Grade
The state's new funding formula illuminates the needs of foster youth. Early implementation finds reason for cautious optimism, but there is much work ahead.
Equity & Diversity
Opinion
'Parent Power' Getting More Powerful and Organized
California's new finance and accountability system depends on local democracy. It turns a parent's role from choice to voice.
Equity & Diversity
Opinion
California Exceptionalism Is Not All Sunshine and Flowers
The state is worst in the nation in providing guidance counselors. It's been a problem for a long time, and not one that has a solution on the horizon.
School & District Management
Opinion
Invisibility Cloak Lifted From California Foster Youth
California's new school funding formula brought foster-care youth into public attention, along with their stories of struggle and triumph. Before getting to policy issues, let's just listen to them.
Federal
Ed. Dept. Tries to Increase Stability for Foster Students with Guidance
The U.S. Department of Education uses a three-pronged approach to increase educational stability for children in the foster care system.
Student Well-Being
Ed. Dept. Issues Guidance on Access to Records of Students in Foster Care
The Education Department ramped up its efforts today to increase educational stability for children in the foster care system.
College & Workforce Readiness
Report Roundup
Foster Children
Students living in foster homes are twice as likely to drop out of school as other students and significantly trail their low-income peers on other academic measures, researchers in California found.
Equity & Diversity
Grim Portrait of Foster Youth in California Schools
A report using newly available data that links school and child welfare data in California shows that foster youth in the state's public schools lag all other subgroups on major academic indicators.
