➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ:
US: Fight Brewing Over How the Draft ESSA Rules Handle Students in Foster Care
Education Week – June 03, 2016
The disagreement relates to how the law tries to create more stability for foster care students by allowing students to remain in their original school whenever possible. There’s a big debate over whether the local district or the welfare agency is on the hook for the sometimes-expensive transportation costs to keep a child in his or her school of origin.
http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/campaign-k-12/2016/06/essa_rules_foster_care_children_dispute.html