➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ:
US: A Better Way to Ensure Educational Stability for Foster Kids (Opinion)
Chronicle of Social Change – May 22, 2017
While educational stability is an important goal, it seems somewhat incongruous to use Alex’s story to illustrate how the new legislation would help achieve it. The new law would not require that students like Alex be placed near their existing schools. Rather, it would require Los Angeles to transport Alex 50 miles each way from the group home to his school. Margaret Henry, a Los Angeles Superior Court Judge, noticed the same problem. In her column, When Finding Educational Stability for Foster Youth, Maybe It Does Take a Village, she asks: “Why spend money transporting children for hours to their home school, instead of working harder and more creatively to find them placements in their home school’s district?”
https://chronicleofsocialchange.org/blogger-co-op/better-way-ensure-educational-stability-foster-kids/26918