3.0.0 5817 2023-01-11T13:21:54Z 2023-01-11T13:21:54Z House H HR 2010-07-22 111 hsed00 Education and the Workforce Committee House Standing hsed04 Healthy Families and Communities Subcommittee Referred to 2010-10-13T15:07:27Z Referred to 2010-07-22T14:02:44Z hswm00 Ways and Means Committee House Standing Referred to 2010-07-22T14:02:45Z Fostering Success in Education Act 111 2801 S 2009-11-19 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S11597-11604) Identical bill CRS 2010-10-13 hsed04 Healthy Families and Communities Subcommittee 1 House committee actions Referred to the Subcommittee on Healthy Families and Communities. Committee 2010-07-28 Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1457) IntroReferral B00100 9 Library of Congress 2010-07-22 Referred to House Ways and Means IntroReferral H11100 2 House floor actions hswm00 Ways and Means Committee 2010-07-22 Referred to the Committee on Education and Labor, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned. IntroReferral H11100-A 9 Library of Congress 2010-07-22 Referred to House Education and Labor IntroReferral H11100 2 House floor actions hsed00 Education and the Workforce Committee 2010-07-22 Introduced in House IntroReferral Intro-H 9 Library of Congress 2010-07-22 Introduced in House IntroReferral 1000 9 Library of Congress L000287 Rep. Lewis, John [D-GA-5] JOHN LEWIS D GA 5 N D000216 Rep. DeLauro, Rosa L. [D-CT-3] ROSA DELAURO D CT 3 2010-07-28 False Education Adoption and foster care Advisory bodies Child safety and welfare Civil actions and liability Education of the disadvantaged Education programs funding Elementary and secondary education Intergovernmental relations Preschool education School administration State and local government operations Transportation costs Education 00 2010-07-22 Introduced in House 2010-07-27T18:28:19Z Fostering Success in Education Act - Requires each state receiving school improvement funds under part A of title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to ensure that its foster care children have the right to: (1) continue attending the school they were in when placed in foster care or before a change in such placement (school of origin), unless it is determined to be in the child's best interest to be immediately enrolled in a different school; (2) immediate enrollment in a new school in their school attendance area; (3) well-maintained school records that are available in a timely manner; (4) equal access to the same education and opportunities as other students attending the school or school district; and (5) free transportation to and from their school.

Includes preschool children as beneficiaries of such rights, with respect to preschool programs.

Requires states to: (1) ensure that their state and local educational agencies (LEAs) and child welfare agencies collaborate in specified activities aimed at satisfying such rights; and (2) maintain a complaint management system, and an effective system for transferring and recovering a foster child's school credits.

Requires an LEA serving a foster child's school of origin to make an expedited decision on whether it is in the foster child's best interest to attend such school or be immediately enrolled in a new school in the child's school attendance area, unless the state decides that the decision is to be made solely by the dependency court or state or local child welfare agency. Requires states to have fair and impartial procedures to resolve school selection disputes promptly.

Allows parties who claim that their rights under this Act have been violated to bring a civil action in the appropriate U.S. district court.

Directs the Secretary of Education to allot grants to states and, through them, competitive subgrants to public agencies, including LEAs and local child welfare agencies, to carry out this Act's requirements.

Requires each state grantee to: (1) implement a Secretary-approved state foster care and education plan for satisfying this Act's requirements; and (2) establish a Stakeholder Council that monitors, and makes recommendations regarding, plan implementation.

Amends part E (Foster Care and Adoption Assistance) of title IV of the Social Security Act to require state child welfare agencies to arrange for, provide, or pay the cost of the transportation necessary for foster children to remain in the school they attended at the time of their placement.

Requires state and local child welfare and educational agencies to collaborate in eliminating barriers to the educational stability, enrollment, and success of foster children.

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