“Ready to Succeed: Changing Systems to Give California’s Foster Children the Opportunities They Deserve to be Ready for and Succeed in School” is our site of the day.

Published: May 19, 2008, 3:59 pm

The California Education Collaborative for Children in Foster Care released a new report today calling for a sharper focus on educational outcomes for children in foster care in our state and offering recommendations for strengthening the policies and systems that support them. Ready to Succeed: Changing Systems to Give California's Foster Children the Opportunities They Deserve to be Ready for and Succeed in School is a 36 page summary report that connects the dots between foster care, social service and the education system> Even in a year of budget cutbacks, or especially in a year such as this one, the findings and recommendations of this report should be considered. Failure here will only lead to increased costs for incarceration, broken lives, and an unhappy future for our state and these children as adults. A few of the many statistics you will learn from reading this report: Nearly one-half (46%) of these children will drop out before they finish high

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