States must now track the educational progress of foster youth [EdSource.org]

Samantha Sangenito 12/15/154:00 AM

For the first time, improving the educational outcomes of foster youth is part of the nation’s education law.

The reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, signed Thursday by President Barack Obama, requires states to track achievement test and graduation data for foster youth as a separate subgroup.

It follows what California has already done for foster youth through legislation such as the Local Control Funding Formula.

“Without California, these things wouldn’t be in the federal law,” said Jesse Hahnel, director of the National Center for Youth Law, which worked to include foster youth in education reforms in California and at the national level. Advocates for foster youth looked to California when pressing for changes in the law, he said.

[For more of this story, written by Susan Frey, go to http://edsource.org/2015/state...f-foster-youth/91860]

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