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In federal court last week, Texas Judge Janis Graham Jack demanded faster action from the state agencies overseeing Texas'' foster care system for swifter action to address the current crisis, KXAN Austin reported. On Jan. 10, a panel of three independent, national experts submitted their ...
Joseph “Jody” Hughes, assistant solicitor general under Paxton, told the judges it would be impossible to put each foster child into a home to receive individualized care, because there are so many thousands [of] children in need of the system and “not eve...
leaders from Texas’ Department of Family and Protective Services waffled on their methods of tracking deaf children in foster care and the number currently in the system. After foster children came forward and shared stories of abuse and neglect amplified by an inability to communicate w...
Issues of abuse and neglect have plagued the state's child welfare agency for decades. It is why the Texas foster care system is undergoing a major overhaul, moving to privatize its services.
As of mid-July, the 52 Texas-based state-licensed shelters and foster care programs contracted by HHS were housing more than 4,700 unaccompanied children, according to data obtained by CBS News. Welch is one of the lawyers charged with making sure the federal government is complying with t...
The lawsuit against Texas’ foster care system has taken many turns in the 13 years that it has wound through the federal courts. But the decision that now sits before the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals could be a bombshell.
There are a handful of scholarships and grants available to Texas residents such as the Education and Training Voucher program for Youth Aging out of Foster Care. The vouchers offer up to $5000 per foster youth annually to assist with college tuition fees and costs. On an institutional level ...
Jack, the semi-retired judge who has become the state’s unofficial foster care czar through some 60 orders aimed at the system over the past decade, “has become too personally involved in the proceedings” to provide even the “appearance of justice” in the high-s...
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