➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ:
US: First ESSA Guidance Focuses on Promoting Educational Stability of Foster Youth
Education World – June 24, 2016
The U.S. Department of Education has released the first guidance of a series on how states should implement the Every Student Succeeds Act, the country’s new education legislation that will go into effect in August. Also: U.S. Departments of Education and Health and Human Services Release Joint Guidance on Foster Youth (Press release): https://www.ed.gov/news/press-releases/us-departments-education-and-health-and-human-services-release-joint-guidance-foster-youth Also: http://www2.ed.gov/policy/elsec/leg/essa/edhhsfostercarenonregulatorguide.pdf Information Gateway Resource: Education and the Child in Foster Care: https://www.childwelfare.gov/topics/outofhome/resources-foster-families/parenting/education-and-child/
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