This section includes:

• Introduction: Foster Care Point of Contact Toolkit

• Program Overview

• Educational Stability for Foster Care Youth in Region 2

• Resources

This section includes:

• History and Overview

• Foster Care Provisions:

  • Collaboration

  • School Placement Best Interest Determinations

  • Immediate Enrollment and Record Transfers

  • Transportation

  • LEA Foster Care Point of Contact

• Resources

This section includes:

• Early Childhood

• Special Education

• Residential Treatment Facilities

• Foster Care and Homelessness

• Transitioning Out of Foster Care

• Foster Care to College

• School Placement Disputes

• Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA)

• Pennsylvania's Act 1

• Child Accounting

This section includes:

• Educational Rights for Foster Students in Charter Schools

• Tips for Collaboration: Charter Schools and School Districts

• Sample Foster Care Procedures for Cyber Charter Schools

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• Education Law Center. (2025, August). Fact Sheet: Rights of students in foster care.

• Federal Student Aid. (n.d.). At any time since you turned aged 13, were both your parents deceased, were you in foster care, or were you a dependent or ward of the court?

• National Foster Youth Institute. (n.d.). Housing and Homelessness.

• National Foster Youth Institute. (n.d.). 51 useful aging out of foster care statistics | Social race media.

• Johnson, V. (2022, November). Foster care & homelessness. Pathways to Housing PA.

• Pennsylvania Department of Education. (n.d.). Act 1 of 2022: Supporting graduation for students experiencing education instability.

• Department of Education (2014,July). Surrogate Parents | Commonwealth of Pennsylvania 

• The Field Center for Children's Policy, Practice, and Research. (n.d.). Foster care to college (FC2C).

• U.S. Department of Education and Department of Health and Human Services. (2016, June). Non-Regulatory guidance: Ensuring educational stability for children in foster care.

• U.S. Department of Education. (2014, May). Uninterrupted Scholars Act.

• U.S Department of Education. (2016, May). Foster care transition tookkit.

• Youth topics: Homelessness and Housing Instability. (n.d.). Youth.gov.