The Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act was signed into law on October 7, 2008, as Public Law 110-351. It’s many provisions includes requirements to increase Educational Stability. These requirements add travel to and from school in the foster care maintenance payment definition, adds a case plan requirement to ensure educational stability for children in foster care, and requires that the title IV-E agency ensure that each child receiving a payment under the title IV-E plan is attending school full time or has completed secondary school.
The Child Welfare Information Gateway has a fact sheet describing subsidies, including Federal title IV-E eligibility requirements.
Information about Implementing Fostering Connections Act in Virginia: Fostering Connections: Joint Guidance for School Stability in Foster Care
Information about Implementing Fostering Connections Act in Virginia: Enrollment of students in foster care.
Information about Fostering Connections related to Grandparents and Other Relatives raising children.
Reports and information from the Legal Center on Foster Children and Education and the Annie E. Casey Foundation: Sustaining Momentum: Sustaining Educational Stability for Young People in Foster Care
From the Legal Center on Foster Children and Education and the Annie E. Casey Foundation: How the IDEA and the Fostering Connections Act can Work Together to Ensure School Stability and Seamless Transitions for Children with Disabilities in the Child Welfare System
From the Legal Center on Foster Children and Education and the Annie E. Casey Foundation: Fostering Success in Education: National Fact Sheet on the Educational Outcomes of Children in Foster Care
From the Legal Center on Foster Children and Education and the Annie E. Casey Foundation: Schools as Mandatory Partners in Ensuring Educational Stability
The joint ED and HHS Letter to Chief State School Officers and Child Welfare Directors on Implementing the Fostering Connections Act.
Information about children in foster care from the US Department of Education.
Information and links about Fostering Connections from the Children’s Defense Fund.
General information about Fostering Connections from the Child Welfare Information Gateway