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- Children entering foster care often have already experienced significant emotional or physical trauma or maltreatment that harms their ability to function in a classroom setting and interferes with their ability to learn. Most children entering the foster care system are already a year behind their peers in school.
- Frequent changes in foster care placements often mean transferring to a new school, leading to a bewildering array of teachers, administrators, classmates and routines. Typically, school records do not follow students in a timely manner, magnifying the problems, and when records do arrive, they are often incomplete.
- Too often, there is no single person with an interest in a foster child's educational outcomes, nor the authority and accountability to provide guidance when necessary.
- Child welfare advocates, educators and other service providers do not and sometimes cannot share information about foster children for whom they are responsible, making it more difficult to coordinate a child's education and education-related interventions.
To address these and other issues, the new report identifies three key policy areas - School Readiness, School Success and Data Sharing - to focus improvements that can lead to improved educational outcomes for foster children. Recommendations within each area include measures to strengthen and increase access to high quality preschool; ensure school stability and increase training, support and incentives for educators; and improve the collection and sharing of data related to the educational progress of foster care youth. ', WIDTH, 400);" onmouseout="return nd();">Ready to Succeed: Changing Systems to Give California's Foster Children the Opportunities They Deser
The Center for the Future of Teaching and Learning (CFTL)
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May 2008
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