Improving Education for Foster Youth Act

Bill: 114-hr-562
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Grayson, Alan [D-FL-9]
Introduced: 2015-01-27
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Adoption and foster care

Education of the disadvantaged

Education programs funding

Elementary and secondary education

School administration
Latest action: action_date: 2015-04-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.

Summaries:
action_date: 2015-01-27
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><strong>Improving Education for Foster Youth Act</strong></p> <p>Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) to require states that receive ESEA assistance to implement policies ensuring that foster care children who are changing schools can transfer school credits and receive partial credits for coursework satisfactorily completed while attending a prior school or educational program.</p>

tv_txt: I 114th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 562 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES January 27, 2015 Mr. Grayson introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce A BILL To improve transfer of earned school credits for foster youth.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Improving Education for Foster Youth Act . 2. Improved credit transfer for children in foster care Subpart 2 of part E of title IX ( 20 U.S.C. 7901 et seq. ) of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 ( 20 U.S.C. 6301 et seq. ) is amended by adding at the end the following: 9537. Credit transfer of children in foster care Each State that receives assistance under this Act shall implement policies ensuring that a child in foster care who is changing schools can transfer school credits and receive partial credits for coursework satisfactorily completed while attending a prior school or educational program. .