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Read More State legislation Sneha Barve 5/20/26 State legislation Sneha Barve 5/20/26 Maryland legislation- HB 1305 (2026) Bill passed in April 2026 that requires Maryland to track the number of foster youth who enroll in college and graduate in 6 years, and compare that with students not in care. It also requires a report by Dec. 1 2026 that identifies needs and gaps in services that could improve educational outcomes for youth in foster care, identifies best practices from other states, and provide recommendations to improve education outcomes and data collection/reporting for students in foster care. Read More Dashboards & Report Cards Sneha Barve 5/20/26 Dashboards & Report Cards Sneha Barve 5/20/26 Maryland Foster Youth Higher Education Participation Dashboard Dashboard that includes data about how many youth in foster care in Maryland go to college, how many receive different levels of financial aid, and college retention and graduation rates. The data is broken down by whether students graduated high school while in or after exiting foster care, by race, and by region. Read More Data-informed reports Sneha Barve 5/18/26 Data-informed reports Sneha Barve 5/18/26 Educational Experiences of Massachusetts Foster Youth 2023 Citizens for Juvenile Justice report examining education data for students in foster care compared with other student groups. Includes data related to graduation, discipline, attendance, assessment performance, grade retention, special education, and school mobility. Also includes recommendations to improve data collection & transparency and school-based accountability. Read More Dashboards & Report Cards Sneha Barve 4/17/26 Dashboards & Report Cards Sneha Barve 4/17/26 Missouri Report Card Missouri educational data display that has several datapoints broken down by students in foster care, including enrollment, attendance, graduation, assessment performance, and chronic absenteeism. Read More Dashboards & Report Cards Sneha Barve 4/17/26 Dashboards & Report Cards Sneha Barve 4/17/26 New Jersey School Performance Report New Jersey educational data report that contains several measures specific to students in foster care, including assessment performance, AP/IB/CTE participation, graduation, and chronic absenteeism. Read More Dashboards & Report Cards, Data-informed reports Sneha Barve 4/17/26 Dashboards & Report Cards, Data-informed reports Sneha Barve 4/17/26 Indiana Foster Youth Educational Outcomes Report 23-24 Report sharing Indiana data specific to students in foster care for the 2023-24 school year. Includes metrics related to enrollment, graduation, assessment performance, grade promotion and retention, and discipline. The report concludes with a remediation plan for supporting students in foster care. Read More Dashboards & Report Cards Sneha Barve 4/16/26 Dashboards & Report Cards Sneha Barve 4/16/26 DC Report Card Website displaying DC educational data. Most of the metrics include data specific to students in foster care. Read More Dashboards & Report Cards Sneha Barve 4/16/26 Dashboards & Report Cards Sneha Barve 4/16/26 Delaware Educational Data Reports Website displaying Delaware educational data across metrics. To see reports that include data specific to students in foster care, click on “Annual Graduation Rates Report” or “Annual Dropout Rate Report” Read More Dashboards & Report Cards Sneha Barve 4/13/26 Dashboards & Report Cards Sneha Barve 4/13/26 Connecticut EdSight Connecticut education data website, which includes data specific to students in foster care for graduation rates and some assessment performance metrics. Read More Dashboards & Report Cards Sneha Barve 4/13/26 Dashboards & Report Cards Sneha Barve 4/13/26 Arizona Report Card Arizona’s education data website, which includes data specific to students in foster care on some metrics, including assessment performance, graduation rate, and chronic absenteeism. Read More Dashboards & Report Cards Sneha Barve 4/13/26 Dashboards & Report Cards Sneha Barve 4/13/26 Alaska Report Card Alaska education data website that includes data specific to students in foster care for attendance, graduation, and dropout rates. Read More Dashboards & Report Cards, Data-informed reports Sneha Barve 3/9/26 Dashboards & Report Cards, Data-informed reports Sneha Barve 3/9/26 Oregon Child Integrated Dataset Legislative Report 2025 Oregon report containing data related to foster care and education, among other metrics related to children and youth. One section spotlights school mobility and its impact on graduation for youth in foster care (p. 7-8). Read More Dashboards & Report Cards, Data-informed reports Sneha Barve 2/12/26 Dashboards & Report Cards, Data-informed reports Sneha Barve 2/12/26 Oregon Report Card 2024-25 Report sharing a range of educational datapoints for students in Oregon. Many measures are broken down specifically for students in foster care. Notably, while still trailing most other subgroups, students in foster care saw the most significant improvement in 9th graders on track for graduation, with a 15.3 percentage point increase from the previous report bringing the total to 74.7%. Read More Data-informed reports Sneha Barve 10/7/25 Data-informed reports Sneha Barve 10/7/25 School Mobility for Students in Foster Care Report by the American Institute for Research analyzing California data about school mobility for students in foster care. Read More Dashboards & Report Cards Sneha Barve 10/6/25 Dashboards & Report Cards Sneha Barve 10/6/25 Map: The Mobility of Students in Foster Care in California Interactive map displaying school mobility rates by school district in California. Read More Dashboards & Report Cards Sneha Barve 9/16/25 Dashboards & Report Cards Sneha Barve 9/16/25 California Discipline Data Data tool created by the National Center for Youth Law that presents discipline data statewide, by county, and by district for California. Includes numbers specific to students in foster care, students experiencing homelessness, and broken down by student’s race. Read More Data-informed reports Sneha Barve 5/6/25 Data-informed reports Sneha Barve 5/6/25 Supporting Success for Pennsylvania’s Students in Foster Care: Data, Outcomes, and Stories from the Field Report by PA Partnerships for Children and the Education Law Center sharing data specific to students in foster care compared to their peers across enrollment, test scores, school discipline, and graduation. The report also includes testimonies from students in foster care, insights from school foster care liaisons, and policy recommendations. Read More Dashboards & Report Cards Sneha Barve 5/1/25 Dashboards & Report Cards Sneha Barve 5/1/25 Kentucky Foster Youth Aged-Out Outcomes Dashboard Interactive dashboard that allows users to explore data, including related to educational outcomes, for those that exited foster care between the 2015-2022 state fiscal years. This dashboard is powered by the Kentucky Center for Statistics. Read More Data-informed reports Sneha Barve 4/8/25 Data-informed reports Sneha Barve 4/8/25 Revisiting California’s Invisible Achievement Gap: Trends in Education Outcomes of Students in Foster Care in the Context of the Local Control Funding Formula March 2025 report by WestEd that follows up on a 2013 study of educational outcomes for California students in foster care. Includes data about the population of students in foster care, their academic outcomes, and changes since 2013. It also details how districts used and didn’t use local control funding to support students in foster care, and includes insights from students who were previously in foster care. Read More Older Posts
Data-informed reports, Dashboards & Report Cards Sneha Barve 5/20/26 Data-informed reports, Dashboards & Report Cards Sneha Barve 5/20/26 Maryland DHS Child Welfare System Report 2025 Maryland Dept. of Human Services report compiling legislatively mandated data related to a wide range of child welfare metrics. While most data is not specific to education, the report includes measures such as timely enrollment in school after placement in care and the number of children in care enrolled in different postsecondary programs. Read More
State legislation Sneha Barve 5/20/26 State legislation Sneha Barve 5/20/26 Maryland legislation- HB 1305 (2026) Bill passed in April 2026 that requires Maryland to track the number of foster youth who enroll in college and graduate in 6 years, and compare that with students not in care. It also requires a report by Dec. 1 2026 that identifies needs and gaps in services that could improve educational outcomes for youth in foster care, identifies best practices from other states, and provide recommendations to improve education outcomes and data collection/reporting for students in foster care. Read More
Dashboards & Report Cards Sneha Barve 5/20/26 Dashboards & Report Cards Sneha Barve 5/20/26 Maryland Foster Youth Higher Education Participation Dashboard Dashboard that includes data about how many youth in foster care in Maryland go to college, how many receive different levels of financial aid, and college retention and graduation rates. The data is broken down by whether students graduated high school while in or after exiting foster care, by race, and by region. Read More
Data-informed reports Sneha Barve 5/18/26 Data-informed reports Sneha Barve 5/18/26 Educational Experiences of Massachusetts Foster Youth 2023 Citizens for Juvenile Justice report examining education data for students in foster care compared with other student groups. Includes data related to graduation, discipline, attendance, assessment performance, grade retention, special education, and school mobility. Also includes recommendations to improve data collection & transparency and school-based accountability. Read More
Dashboards & Report Cards Sneha Barve 4/17/26 Dashboards & Report Cards Sneha Barve 4/17/26 Missouri Report Card Missouri educational data display that has several datapoints broken down by students in foster care, including enrollment, attendance, graduation, assessment performance, and chronic absenteeism. Read More
Dashboards & Report Cards Sneha Barve 4/17/26 Dashboards & Report Cards Sneha Barve 4/17/26 New Jersey School Performance Report New Jersey educational data report that contains several measures specific to students in foster care, including assessment performance, AP/IB/CTE participation, graduation, and chronic absenteeism. Read More
Dashboards & Report Cards, Data-informed reports Sneha Barve 4/17/26 Dashboards & Report Cards, Data-informed reports Sneha Barve 4/17/26 Indiana Foster Youth Educational Outcomes Report 23-24 Report sharing Indiana data specific to students in foster care for the 2023-24 school year. Includes metrics related to enrollment, graduation, assessment performance, grade promotion and retention, and discipline. The report concludes with a remediation plan for supporting students in foster care. Read More
Dashboards & Report Cards Sneha Barve 4/16/26 Dashboards & Report Cards Sneha Barve 4/16/26 DC Report Card Website displaying DC educational data. Most of the metrics include data specific to students in foster care. Read More
Dashboards & Report Cards Sneha Barve 4/16/26 Dashboards & Report Cards Sneha Barve 4/16/26 Delaware Educational Data Reports Website displaying Delaware educational data across metrics. To see reports that include data specific to students in foster care, click on “Annual Graduation Rates Report” or “Annual Dropout Rate Report” Read More
Dashboards & Report Cards Sneha Barve 4/13/26 Dashboards & Report Cards Sneha Barve 4/13/26 Connecticut EdSight Connecticut education data website, which includes data specific to students in foster care for graduation rates and some assessment performance metrics. Read More
Dashboards & Report Cards Sneha Barve 4/13/26 Dashboards & Report Cards Sneha Barve 4/13/26 Arizona Report Card Arizona’s education data website, which includes data specific to students in foster care on some metrics, including assessment performance, graduation rate, and chronic absenteeism. Read More
Dashboards & Report Cards Sneha Barve 4/13/26 Dashboards & Report Cards Sneha Barve 4/13/26 Alaska Report Card Alaska education data website that includes data specific to students in foster care for attendance, graduation, and dropout rates. Read More
Dashboards & Report Cards, Data-informed reports Sneha Barve 3/9/26 Dashboards & Report Cards, Data-informed reports Sneha Barve 3/9/26 Oregon Child Integrated Dataset Legislative Report 2025 Oregon report containing data related to foster care and education, among other metrics related to children and youth. One section spotlights school mobility and its impact on graduation for youth in foster care (p. 7-8). Read More
Dashboards & Report Cards, Data-informed reports Sneha Barve 2/12/26 Dashboards & Report Cards, Data-informed reports Sneha Barve 2/12/26 Oregon Report Card 2024-25 Report sharing a range of educational datapoints for students in Oregon. Many measures are broken down specifically for students in foster care. Notably, while still trailing most other subgroups, students in foster care saw the most significant improvement in 9th graders on track for graduation, with a 15.3 percentage point increase from the previous report bringing the total to 74.7%. Read More
Data-informed reports Sneha Barve 10/7/25 Data-informed reports Sneha Barve 10/7/25 School Mobility for Students in Foster Care Report by the American Institute for Research analyzing California data about school mobility for students in foster care. Read More
Dashboards & Report Cards Sneha Barve 10/6/25 Dashboards & Report Cards Sneha Barve 10/6/25 Map: The Mobility of Students in Foster Care in California Interactive map displaying school mobility rates by school district in California. Read More
Dashboards & Report Cards Sneha Barve 9/16/25 Dashboards & Report Cards Sneha Barve 9/16/25 California Discipline Data Data tool created by the National Center for Youth Law that presents discipline data statewide, by county, and by district for California. Includes numbers specific to students in foster care, students experiencing homelessness, and broken down by student’s race. Read More
Data-informed reports Sneha Barve 5/6/25 Data-informed reports Sneha Barve 5/6/25 Supporting Success for Pennsylvania’s Students in Foster Care: Data, Outcomes, and Stories from the Field Report by PA Partnerships for Children and the Education Law Center sharing data specific to students in foster care compared to their peers across enrollment, test scores, school discipline, and graduation. The report also includes testimonies from students in foster care, insights from school foster care liaisons, and policy recommendations. Read More
Dashboards & Report Cards Sneha Barve 5/1/25 Dashboards & Report Cards Sneha Barve 5/1/25 Kentucky Foster Youth Aged-Out Outcomes Dashboard Interactive dashboard that allows users to explore data, including related to educational outcomes, for those that exited foster care between the 2015-2022 state fiscal years. This dashboard is powered by the Kentucky Center for Statistics. Read More
Data-informed reports Sneha Barve 4/8/25 Data-informed reports Sneha Barve 4/8/25 Revisiting California’s Invisible Achievement Gap: Trends in Education Outcomes of Students in Foster Care in the Context of the Local Control Funding Formula March 2025 report by WestEd that follows up on a 2013 study of educational outcomes for California students in foster care. Includes data about the population of students in foster care, their academic outcomes, and changes since 2013. It also details how districts used and didn’t use local control funding to support students in foster care, and includes insights from students who were previously in foster care. Read More
