Articles tagged: foster care
Will Texas Keep Fighting Foster Care Reform?
More than three years ago, a federal judge handed down court orders to reform Texas’ foster care system. And for more than three years, state lawyers have fought against those orders.
It’s been more than three years since a federal judge ruled that Texas dumps some of the state’s most vulnerable children into a foster care system “where...Read More
Expecting Care
How Texas is failing foster care kids and contributing to an alarming teen pregnancy rate.
by Rebecca Grant January 22, 2019 When Arianna walked into a church basement in Austin to take a free pregnancy test, she thought of it as a lark, a way to ...Read More
Law Will Allow Texas to Refuse Same-Sex Couples, Non-Christians as Foster Parents
The proposal would also protect contractors who send children to parochial schools and deny abortion access to young women in their care.
The proposal would also protect contractors who send children to parochial schools and deny abortion access to young women in their care....Read More
Despite Warnings, the Texas Legislature Plans to Privatize Much of the Child Welfare System
Pressure from the governor to get CPS reforms passed quickly has hushed most criticism of the $279 million privatization plan.
Pressure from the governor to get CPS reforms passed quickly has hushed most criticism of the $279 million privatization plan....Read More
Lawmakers Wrangle Over Fix for ‘Broken’ Foster Care System
Republicans said they're not sure if more money is a fix for Texas' child welfare system, where children have died, been abused and re-abused in state care....Read More
The Texas Miracle #3: The Gospel of Soup
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On the podcast: our roundtable wonders at the wild world of Sid Miller, plus we take Texas to task for leaders' mishandling of the foster care system....Read More
Lawmakers Try to Bring Order to Disastrously Lax Foster Care Training System
Responding to the deaths of 13 children under the protection of licensed caregivers, the legislature is considering more oversight of foster care agencies....Read More
The State Considers Pausing Controversial Foster Care Reforms
The House and Human Services Committee is asking that the state temporarily stop the rollout of controversial reforms to the foster care system in Texas....Read More
Texas Kids Living With Relatives Aren’t Getting State Support They’re Due
According to a new report, a quarter-million Texas children are living with family members other than their parents, but aren’t getting the state and federal ...Read More