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Close the Educational Opportunity Gap for College-Bound Foster Youth

WASHINGTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–It is back-to-school time and many young people are saying goodbye to their families and heading off to college. Others, however, are making the journey alone: thousands of foster care teens who have “aged out” of the system. For many of these youth, education has been the one promising constant in their lives – and now, at the threshold of adulthood, it is a struggle to find financial and emotional support to…

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