Most Colorado foster kids change schools at least once a year, and performance falls with each move
“Of the 6,500 children in Colorado’s foster system last year, 55 percent changed schools at least once during the school year. School districts are required to have child welfare education liaisons, a point-of-contact between schools and county child welfare departments. Liaisons join a ‘best interests determination’ phone call for each foster child who might transfer into a local school, said Jackie Bell, manager of the federal Every Student Succeeds Act foster care program at DPS.”