May 31, 2012 - Breaking News from our friends at Fostering Media Connections: Today, the Congressional Caucus on Foster Youth introduced a bi-partisan bill that promises to streamline access to foster children’s educational records. If passed, The Access to Papers Leads to Uninterrupted Scholars Act (A+ Act), would allow foster care agencies and social workers eased access to critical information about how foster children are doing in school, by amending the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, known as FERPA. The...Read more »
