Six school districts, two associations, and two individuals are “pushing back against a new state law aimed at improving school transportation for students in foster care,” Christie Renick reports for the Chronicle of Social Change. This law (HB 18-1306)—which helps Colorado comply with ESSA’s foster youth transportation provision—allocates nearly...
According to Tennessee Watson, education officials in Wyoming must focus more on the “educational needs of foster kids” under ESSA, so school districts in the state “now have foster care liaisons and collaborative agreements with local representatives from the Department of Family Services.”
Chronicle of Social Change’s Christie Renick writes that the Colorado legislature is considering a $2.9 million bill “aimed at improving the educational success of students who are foster youths.” If signed into law, Colorado will be the first state to officially implement a program that conforms to...
Christie Renick reports for Tucson Weekly about ESSA’s requirement that states “solve the mobility problem for foster youth,” which “mandated child welfare and education departments work together to pay for transportation to a foster youth’s ‘school of origin.’” Here’s the thing, though: Arizona says it...
According to a new Brookings Institution report, the impact of ESSA on low-income students is still unknown. The Dept. of Education has not released official guidelines on how states should track student subgroups, including those from low-income families. Traditionally, states have measured this by the...
Education Week reports on the effect ESSA will have on foster kids, noting that while the new law will break out student-outcome data for this group (i.e. test scores and graduation rates) and keep them in their “school of origin,” there are still many unanswered...
