NY: Foster kids need more educational help now
NYN Media – July 19, 2022
There are more than 8,000 children in foster care in New York City and, if recent trends continue, no more than 2,000 of them will graduate high school. A recently completed study by the City’s Center for Innovation Through Data Intelligence (CIDI) found that in 2019, pre-COVID-19, only 25% of children in foster care were graduating high school within four years. And there’s every reason to believe that lost school time during COVID only made things worse. The graduation rate for students in city public schools overall is about 81%.
Also: Education Outcomes of NYC Youth in Foster Care: https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/cidi/downloads/pdfs/Education_Outcomes_May19_2022.pdf
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