Issue Position: Education and child welfare

Issue Position

We can't succeed as a state if we fail to educate, protect, and serve the most vulnerable among us. Our schools are going to need our full support implementing new policies and procedures as we continue to deal with COVID 19, and we need to take this opportunity to look at the educational inequities highlighted by this crisis and find ways to address them in a sustainable way. Our child welfare system cannot be run like a business. We have seen the deadly results of that approach, so we must prioritize evidence-based models to rework our foster care system to protect children and fully support their foster parents while providing needed services to their biological parents. We also must create a child welfare system that trains and retains dedicated professionals to do this essential work.

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