Group steps up to help Arizona foster children get the education they deserve
An organization called FosterEd wants to make sure all kids in foster kid get some of the help Rodriguez received, even if they never get adopted. […]
An organization called FosterEd wants to make sure all kids in foster kid get some of the help Rodriguez received, even if they never get adopted. […]
Arizona Rep. John Allen has sponsored House Bill 2665, which would fund and authorize FosterEd Arizona to expand statewide its services for children in foster […]
A Pima County pilot project that improves foster children’s educational outcomes seeks to expand statewide after a recent study found that Arizona’s foster children face […]
A recent WestEd report showed that Arizona youth in foster care had educational outcomes far worse than low income children and other at-risk subgroups. “Prior […]
Parents are supposed to get the kids to school, follow up on homework and alert the teachers to particular student needs. This is critical to […]
“This is a report that looks at a lot of data,” said Michelle Traiman, director of FosterEd, a national non-profit serving foster youth. The group […]
Proponents of a program that links foster children with education advocates to improve their success in school want the Arizona Legislature to expand a pilot […]
Several Pima County education, child welfare, behavioral health and judicial agencies joined with the National Center for Youth Law yesterday to launch an educational pilot […]
On top of whatever problems made them wards of the state, kids placed in foster care are twice as likely to drop out of school […]