Education

A good education is the key to everyone’s future. Without a good education, it is increasingly difficult to attain a comfortable standard of living. Many foster youth do not graduate from high school and often don’t know what opportunities are available to continue on with a vocational training or college education.

For more information on a high school education, go to High School.

For more information about college opportunities, go to College.

Click on Guardian Scholar Programs to find out about this opportunity at some colleges and universities.

For more information about your rights as a student, go to Fact Sheets. These eight Fact Sheets were produced by the California Foster Youth Education Task Force, a coalition of 21 organizations dedicated to improving educational outcomes for foster youth. Subjects covered are:

• AB 490 – Education Rights: roles for placing agencies, schools and school districts
• IEPs and Holders of Education Rights
• Special Education
• Nonpublic Schools
• AB3632 – IEPs and Mental Health
• Functional Behavioral Assessments and Behavioral Intervention Assessments
• School Discipline
• Special Education discipline