Improving Educational Outcomes for Children in Foster Care: Reading the McKinney-Vento Act's "Awaiting Foster Care Placement" Provision to Include Children in Interim Foster Care Placements

Authors

Sarah Hudson-Plush, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law

Abstract

The note argues that the term "awaiting foster care placement" under the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act should be defined to include children in interim foster care placements to ensure educational stability and access to necessary protections.

Disciplines

Education Law | Law | Social Welfare Law

Recommended Citation

Sarah Hudson-Plush, Improving Educational Outcomes for Children in Foster Care: Reading the McKinney-Vento Act's "Awaiting Foster Care Placement" Provision to Include Children in Interim Foster Care Placements, 13 Cardozo J. Equal Rts. & Soc. Just. 83 (2006).
Available at: https://larc.cardozo.yu.edu/cardozoersj/vol13/iss1/7