Students in Foster Care and Academic Achievement

Students in foster care face ‘invisible achievement gap,’ study says, By Teresa Watanabe, October 13, 2013, Los Angeles Times: “Thousands of California students in foster care are suffering from an ‘invisible achievement gap,’ with worse academic performance, a higher dropout rate and placement in more failing schools than their statewide peers, according to a study set for release Monday. The study, which provides the first detailed statewide look at foster youths and their academic challenges, was made possible by a new data-sharing agreement between the state education and social services agencies. It comes as school districts across California prepare to launch the nation’s first effort to systematically address the yawning academic deficiencies among foster youths, using additional money provided by the state’s new school financing law…”