ABA CENTER ON CHILDREN AND THE LAW

Legal Center for Foster Care and Education Database

This is an interactive database of resources and documents related to the education needs of children in foster care. We have set up this page so you can search specific information about the education needs of children in foster care by state, and/or type of document, and/or topic.

Please contact us at ccleducation@abanet.org to send us other resources, comments or questions you may have!

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All Topics
School Enrollment Stability and Continuity
Foster Care Eligibility for McKinney-Vento
Confidentiality and Information Sharing
Education Decision-Making
Special Education
Equal Education Access and Opportunities
Drop-out and Truancy
School Discipline
Education of Young Children Birth to Age Five
Involving Youth in their Education Planning
In-Court Education Advocacy
In-School Education Advocacy
Post-secondary Education
Financing

All Formats
Studies/reports addressing foster care and educational issues
McKinney-Vento related policies
MOUs and interagency agreements (between social services, educational agencies, judiciary, advocates, etc.)
Legislation (successful and unsuccessful including support and opposition letters/analysis)
Training documents and implementation materials (i.e. for advocates, caregivers, schools, youth, social workers, etc.)
Direct advocacy tools (including judicial and attorney checklists)
Materials from education summits/forums/meetings
Court orders/legal briefs/consent decrees settlement agreements
Resources (books, articles, memorandum)