{"id":10854,"date":"2010-01-04T23:15:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-04T23:15:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-01-04T19:44:34","modified_gmt":"2010-01-04T19:44:34","slug":"one-failure-begets-many-many-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2010\/01\/04\/one-failure-begets-many-many-more\/","title":{"rendered":"One failure begets many, many more"},"content":{"rendered":"

I mentioned the foster care story in the California Watch<\/a> earlier today, but there is just so much to the story I didn’t want to leave it at that.<\/p>\n

But a surprisingly low number of these students receive all the grants they<\/p>\n

Plus, automatic Cal Grants are only for students who apply within a year of graduation – aging out many former foster youth. The study recommends a few important changes: Speed up the timing of the Chafee Grant. Award more grants, factoring in attrition. Rethink the age limits on Cal Grants and Chafee Grants. Guarantee Cal Grants for foster youth.<\/p>\n

The need for aid for former foster youth – not to mention all low-income students – will only increase with this year’s fee increases. (California Watch<\/a>) <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There are a number of failures here. A straight-up funding failure on the part of the state. We simply aren’t providing enough resources for the children that are under the care of the state. The governor threatened to completely eliminate CalGrants next year, and he is likely to put pressure on that again this year.<\/p>\n

But the most upsetting failure is the lack of intervention in the lives of these children. While the state should be working with them to facilitate the transfer out of foster care and into their own majority, there just aren’t enough resources for the local foster care agencies to provide enough one-on-one support to each of these students.<\/p>\n

We owe our foster children more than that.  It is a sad statement that once again, Arnold and the Republicans are looking at making life even more difficult for them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I mentioned the foster care story in the California Watch<\/a> earlier today, but there is just so much to the story I didn’t want to leave it at that.<\/p>\n

But a surprisingly low number of these students receive all the grants they<\/p>\n

Plus, automatic Cal Grants are only for students who apply within a year of graduation – aging out many former foster youth. The study recommends a few important changes: Speed up the timing of the Chafee Grant. Award more grants, factoring in attrition. Rethink the age limits on Cal Grants and Chafee Grants. Guarantee Cal Grants for foster youth.<\/p>\n

The need for aid for former foster youth – not to mention all low-income students – will only increase with this year’s fee increases. (California Watch<\/a>) <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There are a number of failures here. A straight-up funding failure on the part of the state. We simply aren’t providing enough resources for the children that are under the care of the state. The governor threatened to completely eliminate CalGrants next year, and he is likely to put pressure on that again this year.<\/p>\n

But the most upsetting failure is the lack of intervention in the lives of these children. While the state should be working with them to facilitate the transfer out of foster care and into their own majority, there just aren’t enough resources for the local foster care agencies to provide enough one-on-one support to each of these students.<\/p>\n

We owe our foster children more than that.  It is a sad statement that once again, Arnold and the Republicans are looking at making life even more difficult for them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-2P4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10854\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}