Arizona students in foster care changed schools during the school year at about four times the rate of other students¶

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q2 i? Only 58 percent of students in foster care attended the same school all year, versus about 90 percent of low-SES and statewide students, and 15 percent attended three or more schools versus about 1 percent. → Barrat 2015

Evidence¶

Barrat 2015¶

Barrat, V. X., Berliner, B., & Felida, N. J. (2015). Arizona's Invisible Achievement Gap: Education Outcomes of Students in Foster Care in the State's Public Schools. San Francisco: WestEd. http://www.azed.gov/research-evaluation/files/2013/11/2013-a-f-technical-manual.pdf

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Observational analysis of linked administrative data on number of schools attended in 2012/13 (figure 5). Only 58 percent of students in foster care stayed in one school all year versus about 90 percent of comparison groups; "15 percent of students in foster care attended three or more schools during the school year, a level of school mobility experienced by only about 1 percent" of others.

"While about 90 percent of the low-SES students and the statewide student populations attended the same school during the academic year, only 58 percent of students in foster care attended the same school for the full school year."

Discussion¶

Related Claims¶

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