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Through our website, you can learn your rights as a taxpayer and parent as well as to which programs, monies and more you may be entitled...and why you may not be able to exercise these rights.

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Betsy Combier

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Email: betsy.combier@gmail.com

 
The E-Accountability Foundation announces the

'A for Accountability' Award

to those who are willing to whistleblow unjust, misleading, or false actions and claims of the politico-educational complex in order to bring about educational reform in favor of children of all races, intellectual ability and economic status. They ask questions that need to be asked, such as "where is the money?" and "Why does it have to be this way?" and they never give up. These people have withstood adversity and have held those who seem not to believe in honesty, integrity and compassion accountable for their actions. The winners of our "A" work to expose wrong-doing not for themselves, but for others - total strangers - for the "Greater Good"of the community and, by their actions, exemplify courage and self-less passion. They are parent advocates. We salute you.

Winners of the "A":

Johnnie Mae Allen
David Possner
Dee Alpert
Aaron Carr
Harris Lirtzman
Hipolito Colon
Larry Fisher
The Giraffe Project and Giraffe Heroes' Program
Jimmy Kilpatrick and George Scott
Zach Kopplin
Matthew LaClair
Wangari Maathai
Erich Martel
Steve Orel, in memoriam, Interversity, and The World of Opportunity
Marla Ruzicka, in Memoriam
Nancy Swan
Bob Witanek
Peyton Wolcott
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The Foster Care Straightjacket: Innovation, Federal Financing and Accountability in State Foster Care Reform
by Fostering Results
          
Our foster care system is in trouble, and it's in trouble, says Fostering Results, because of the federal financing straightjacket imposed on the system.

"As the federal government and states across the country grapple with record budget shortfalls, state efforts to reform troubled foster care systems are further hampered by rigid federal financing rules that stifle innovation and severely restrict spending federal dollars on services that could help reduce the number of children in foster care. These efforts come as the federal government nears completion of a three year process to evaluate state child welfare systems against a set of performance benchmarks. States that fall short of meeting performance targets risk losing a portion of the more than $4.6 billion in annual federal funding for children in foster care.

This report highlights a common hurdle faced by nearly every state - the federal "straightjacket" - the inability to spend federal dollars earmarked for foster care on the services and strategies that could actually help give children safer, more stable, permanent homes.

 
© 2003 The E-Accountability Foundation