Promoting educational stability (Sec. 204)

The Act adds state case plan requirements for ensuring the educational stability of children in foster care, including  assurances that the state agency "has coordinated with appropriate local educational agencies...to ensure that the child remains in the school in which the child is enrolled at the time of placement."  If remaining in the child's school of origin is not in his or her best interest, the state must assure that the local educational agency provides immediate enrollment in a new school, with all of the child's educational records provided to the new school.

Ensuring children are enrolled in school (Sec. 204)

The Acts also requires states to provide assurances that foster children are enrolled in school, home schooled, in an independent study program, or incapable of attending school on a fulltime basis due to the medical condition of the child.

Increasing reimbursement rate for education-related (Sec. 204)

The Act amends the definition of a Title IV-E foster care maintenance payment to include the cost of "reasonable travel" for transportation expenses related to allowing a child to remain in the same school he or she was attending prior to placement in foster care (reimbursed at the Medicaid matching rate).   Under previous law, states could seek Title IV-E reimbursement for travel related expenses as an administrative expense (with a 50 percent reimbursement rate).