Innovative program aims to mend broken lives of foster kids
Clip: 3/22/2016 | 8m 13s
Moves from home-to-home and school-to-school have led to grim educational outcomes.
For kids growing up in foster care, personal traumas and frequent moves from home-to-home and school-to-school have led to grim educational outcomes. Only about half finish high school, and of that group only 20 percent go on to college. The NewsHour's April Brown reports from Pittsburgh on one effort to improve lives and opportunities for children in the system.
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Innovative program aims to mend broken lives of foster kids
Clip: 3/22/2016 | 8m 13s
For kids growing up in foster care, personal traumas and frequent moves from home-to-home and school-to-school have led to grim educational outcomes. Only about half finish high school, and of that group only 20 percent go on to college. The NewsHour's April Brown reports from Pittsburgh on one effort to improve lives and opportunities for children in the system.
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