A report released by PolicyLab at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia revealed that 17 percent of all Philadelphia public school students have been involved with the child welfare or juvenile justice systems, and it described the educational barriers that these students face. PolicyLab collected and analyzed data in a targeted cross-system review of students in the third, seventh, ninth, and twelfth grades from the 2011-2012 academic year across all schools within the School District of Philadelphia. In addition to determining that a substantial percentage of the school population had involvement with DHS, the report also found that these students tend to cluster in certain school types. Within these struggling schools, the report noted, performance was poor even for those students without DHS involvement, demonstrating the need to transform all students’ educational experience in these difficult environments. Read more about the report — “Supporting the Needs of Students Involved With the Child Welfare and Juvenile Justice System in the School District of Philadelphia” — at bit.ly/1vRyAt7.
Posted on: Mon, 07 Jul 2014 13:45:00 +0000