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LAUSD and District’s Around the State Unveil Draft Plans that Focus on Foster Youth

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The Los Angeles Unified School District’s newly unveiled draft Local Control Accountability Plan (LCAP) demonstrates the promise of California’s new school funding scheme – the Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF) – for foster youth.  The draft plan includes nearly $10 million in new services for foster youth and the hiring of nearly 100 new counselors …

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Pro Bono Attorney at McGuireWoods Steps in Before it’s too Late

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Marlin entered foster care as an infant, after his parents were imprisoned for committing a violent crime. When we met Marlin, he was in second grade, but he was several grade levels behind. Marlin suffers from ADHD and a severe form of epilepsy. Despite Marlin’s learning impairments and academic struggles, his school hadn’t approved any specialized …

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New Tool to Help Foster Youth Graduate on Time

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Educators and school districts that are working to serve foster youth have a new tool available to them.  A new resource, California’s Partial Credit Model Policy:  An Implementation Manual for School Districts and Child Welfare Agencies, has recently been released and provides comprehensive information to ensure foster youth are awarded credit for all work completed …

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Advocates Release Plan to Help School Districts Improve Educational Outcomes for Foster Youth

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This week Coalition for Educational Equity for Foster Youth released a Sample Local Control Accountability Plan for Foster Youth, an important tool for school districts in ensuring that California’s new school funding and accountability system lives up to its promise to end the achievement gap for foster youth. Under the new system, known as the …

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Invisible Education Achievement Gap Between Foster Youth & Peers

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“The Invisible Achievement Gap,” a landmark study funded by The Stuart Foundation, was released this October. The report, which connects statewide education data to child welfare data, is titled thus because its findings show that children in the foster care system often have specialized education needs that go unrecognized and unmet, leading them to fall …

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Alliance and First Star Team Up to Help Foster Youth Get to College

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The Alliance and First Star are partnering to help 28 eleventh graders in foster care get on the right academic footing so they can attend college. At the end of last year, many youth in the innovative First Star UCLA Bruin Academy were struggling academically. Each youth had different scenarios resulting from frequent home and school …

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CA Budget Gives Schools Money for Foster Youth

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On June 13, 2013, the California Legislature passed Senate Bill 91, a trailer bill for California’s 2013-14 budget.  SB 91 preserved California’s Foster Youth Services (FYS) program at the current funding level of $15 million.  These funds will allow FYS to ensure that county offices of education continue to coordinate educational services and supports for …

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