partial credits
California School Board Association Spotlight
The California School Board Association highlights an innovative partnership between the Bonita Unified School District and the Alliance for Children’s Rights to meet the needs of students in foster care. Ninety-five percent of Bonita Unified students graduate high school, but even in high performing districts like this one, students in foster care continue to struggle …
New Tool to Help Foster Youth Graduate on Time
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 …
Policy Will Keep Kids on Track to Graduate
On Wednesday, September 4, the Child Welfare Council of the California Health & Human Services Agency adopted a partial credit policy formula that was developed and presented by the Alliance to ensure foster youth who are shuffled from school to school can get credit for the work they’ve already done. This will help more youth stay …
