Author: Hannah Dellinger

Sign up for Chalkbeat Detroit’s free newsletter to keep up with the city’s public school system and Michigan education policy.Students in Michigan’s foster care system are still routinely denied access to their school records, despite years of raising concerns about the problem.On Tuesday, foster youth and advocates told the State Board of Education they want the Michigan Department of Education and lawmakers to address the systemic problem by requiring schools to provide immediate access to transcripts, creating a centralized statewide database of records, and forming a multi-department taskforce to lead reform efforts.Foster youth have lost years of education because they…