LEGAL CENTER ON FOSTER CARE AND EDUCATION PUBLICATIONS
The Legal Center continues to develop publications and materials addressing the education needs of children in foster care. We seek to develop materials for all stakeholders, and encourage you to send us an e-mail and let us know what other materials you would like to see developed.
Blueprint
The Blueprint for Change: Education Success for Children in Foster Care
The Blueprint for Change is a tool for change. The 8 Goals for Youth and Benchmarks for each goal indicating progress toward achieving education success are a framework for both direct case advocacy and system reform efforts. Following each goal are National, State, and Local Examples of policies, practices, programs, and resources that exist to improve educational outcomes for children in foster care.
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to download the Blueprint!
Click here to download
the Blueprint Insert Card listing all the Goals and Benchmarks.
Click here to
download a Fact Sheet about the Blueprint.
Blueprint Stakeholder Tools
The Legal Center has developed stakeholder tools for related to Goals 1 and 2 of the Blueprint: School Stability and School Transitions. Each of these checklists is designed to assist specific stakeholders about school stability and continuity.
Caseworkers:
Click
here to download the stakeholder tool: School Stability.
Click
here to download the stakeholder tool: School Transitions.
Judges:
Click
here to download the stakeholder tool: School Stability.
Click
here to download the stakeholder tool: School Transitions.
Attorneys:
Click
here to download the stakeholder tool: School Stability.
Click
here to download the stakeholder tool: School Transitions.
Educators:
Click
here to download the stakeholder tool: School Stability.
Click
here to download the stakeholder tool: School Transitions.
Training Materials
Coming soon!
Q & A
Monthly Fact Sheets
The Legal Center plans to develop monthly Question & Answer Fact Sheets about important issues related to education needs for children in out-of-home care.
- Blueprint for Change: Education Success for Children in Foster Care
- Credit Transfer and School Completion
- Head Start and Early Head Start
- Surrogate Parent Programs
- "Awaiting Foster Care Placement" and McKinney-Vento
- Mobility and Special Education
- Child and Family Service Reviews and the Well Being Education Outcome
- No Child Left Behind and Children in Out-of-Home Care
- Data Collection
- Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act of 2008 (H.R. 6893) - Education Provisions
- Tuition Waivers for Post-Secondary Education
- Information Sharing
Special Education
Special Education Decisions for Children in Foster Care: Everyone Has a Role?
This article addresses who is the right individual to act in the education decision maker role for children in out-of-home care.
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Identifying Special Education Decision Makers for Children in Foster Care: State Law Questions
This article identifies state law questions you must answer to understand how the IDEA rules work in your state.
Special Education Decisionmaking Series
These factsheets, designed for specific stakeholders, address the issues surrounding special education decisionmaking for childrens in out-of-home care.
Related Resources
NAEHCY Report
This report from NAEHCY describes how eight jurisdictions are defining awaiting foster care placement and how they are implementing the McKinney-Vento Act for youth in out-of-home care.
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State Legislation Chart - Foster Care and Education
Providing School Stability Outside of the McKinney
Vento Act
This chart outlines existing state laws and policies that provide rights
and protections to children in foster care to assist with school stability
and continuity, separate and apart from those protections offered under
the federal McKinney-Vento Act.
Click here to download chart!
McKinney-Vento AFCP
State Chart -- Providing School Stability Through McKinney-Vento – “Awaiting Foster Care Placement”
This chart outlines existing state and local laws and policies that provide rights and protections to children in foster care to assist with school stability and continuity under the federal McKinney-Vento Act through interpretations of “awaiting foster care placement.”
Click here to download chart
State Legislation Chart - Foster Care and Education
Providing School Stability Outside of the McKinney
Vento Act
This chart outlines existing state laws and policies that provide rights
and protections to children in foster care to assist with school stability
and continuity, separate and apart from those protections offered under
the federal McKinney-Vento Act.
Click here to download chart!
Lessons Learned (Education Law Center and Juvenile Law Center)
This is a report from October 2006 convening at Chapin Hall (supported by Annie E. Casey and Casey Family Program) of advocates for children in foster care, representatives of other stakeholder groups, and foundation staff to focus on improving educational stability for children in foster care in states and nationally.Click here to download the Document!
Educational Stability and Continuity for Children and Youth in Out-of-Home Care
This fact sheet outlines the great need for education stability law, the benefits currently provided under the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Education Act for some children in care, and other state education stability models.Click here to download the Fact Sheet!
Mythbusting: Breaking Down Confidentiality and Decision-Making Barriers to Meet the Education Needs of Children in Foster Care
Author: Kathleen McNaught
Description: Mythbusting is an online, searchable publication
that addresses the issues surrounding confidentiality and other barriers
that arise when advocating for the educational rights of young people
in care
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Learning Curves: Education Advocacy for Children in Foster Care
Authors: Kathleen McNaught and National Child Welfare Resource
Center on Legal and Judicial Issues
Description: This book addresses such topics as creative approaches
to address education barriers for children in foster care and special
education process—with practice tips, psychological tests, education
advocacy resources, and excerpts from key federal laws and regulations.
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