Tuesday, April 23, 2019

Massachusetts Audit Blames Bouncing Foster Kids For The Need Of A Tiny Human Asset Management Tracking System - Happy Child Abuse Propaganda Month

As we begin to close out the celebration for Child Abuse Propaganda Month, let us pay tribute to Massachusetts and its history in trafficking tiny humans.

Yes, there is more to Child Abuse Propaganda Month than just blue pinwheels money hustle because May is Foster Care Propaganda Month.

In order to acquire goods for the child welfare industry, one must have pretty, shiny reports showing that a state's foster care system need more money.

At the time I pulled the pretty colored fact sheet of the report, the report has yet to be uploaded to the state databases, so you can keep checking back for it.
Educational Stability for Students in Foster Care  
The Department's Educational Stability team works to ensure the enrollment, attendance and opportunity to succeed in school for children and youth in foster care. We collaborate with the Massachusetts Department of Children and Families (DCF) and local school districts to implement the provisions for providing educational stability for students in foster care, as outlined in the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA).
In the spirit of fuchsia....


Auditor concerned that communication issues hurt foster children’s education 

Department of Children and Families workers leave the Dorchester DCF office holding hands with a child.
What bouncing tiny humans for money looks like

Foster children often bounce from school to school, suffer chronic absenteeism, experience disciplinary problems, and drop out more frequently than their peers.

Bouncing from school to school is a modern term for trafficking tiny humans.  When one is legally kidnapped from their family, you have a tendency of disciplinary problems that are remedied with lots and lots of second generation antipsychotropics for testing.

Yet poor communication between state child welfare administrators and local schools and conflicting regulations create significant hurdles and educational delays for abused and neglected children as they are moved from foster home to foster home, according to a new state auditor’s report.

Poor communication is called privacy.  Child welfare is all compartmentalized because each department has its own private contractor fraud scheme they know nothing about because the child placing agencies are all outsourced to self-report and no one is going to dry snitch on themselves.

Amid the communication and coordination roadblocks, low-income communities often end up shouldering the financial burden for educating these children, the report said.

Poverty is abuse and neglect, which is why the Medicaid billable term is called Targeted Case Management, where they target poor communities, which means the communities lose appropriations due to forced migration.  These kids are typically lumped into school districts that are stressed for resources, for loss of funding, and throw their hands in the air when it comes to providing these kids any form of help in knowing they will be "bounced" in a few days.

“Too often, the educational success of these students is hindered by a complex bureaucracy and a lack of resources and expertise, and this burden is particularly acute in low-income communities,” state Auditor Suzanne M. Bump said in a statement. Last year, about 6,800 public school students in Massachusetts were in foster care and state education data indicate that about 45 percent of students in foster care require special education services.

FUN FACT! INVOLUNTARY PLACEMENT OF A CHILD IN FOSTER CARE IS THE ONLY WAY TO ACCESS SPECIAL EDUCATION SERVICES FOR MOST CHILDREN

See how the pretty shiny report fails to mention this, below.

School districts devote “considerable time and effort to ensuring that children in foster care are receiving the right educational services,” the report said.

School districts, not the child placing agencies or the state, devotes services.  Please take note of this burden for lack of replenished resources.

But it said some school districts report they receive inconsistent information from the Department of Children and Families, the state’s child welfare agency, while others say they receive no notice from DCF when a student in foster care arrives or leaves their district.

The school districts called the information they receive form DCF "inconsistent".  How cute.  I prefer the term fraudulent.  Alot of times DCF will have multiple identities for the kids to bill.  When a kid is adopted, the name changes, along with everything else, meaning there is no record.

“Several districts reported that they have informed DCF that a foster student has been absent from school (sometimes for periods in excess of 40 days), only to find that DCF has not acted on that report, or has not acted promptly to work with the district on the absenteeism issue,” it said.

No one acts on the reports of missing children because SACWIS, the human asset management system is a joke.

The report noted that these communication gaps can mean students endure duplicative testing and assessments that delay placement in an appropriate educational setting, while increasing the cost of providing the services.

And duplicate billing, double billing, phantom billing.....

“These children tend to bounce around from one community to another and there is no good way to track their educational history, let alone their personal history, so when they arrive at a local school district, the district is starting from scratch,” said Tom Scott, executive director of the Massachusetts Association of School Superintendents.

Ooooo...what a great argument to advocate for tagging and tracking tiny human assets with chip!

Baker administration officials said in response to Bump’s report that the state education department provides training to schools, districts, and DCF staff, aimed at minimizing transitions in education for students in foster care.

The schools and districts are not the problem.  It is the entire child welfare system. It needs to be dismantled and purged of all the nefarious actors who exist in the private spear, monetizing our children for the best interests of their foreign corporate investments in Social Impact Bonds. I would place a heavily weighted responsibility upon Mitt Romney for this.

Administration officials added that Governor Charlie Baker’s education funding proposal filed in January includes an expansion of counseling and psychological services for schools, which would benefit children in foster care.

But what does that do for a kid who is being bounced?

“While our offices will carefully review the full report, many of the auditor’s recommendations are already implemented or underway,” said a statement from the Executive Offices of Education and Health and Human Services. “The Department of Elementary and Secondary Education and the Department of Children and Families have strengthened collaboration and communication between the two agencies and local school districts, including issuing joint guidance in 2018 and all stakeholders continue to strengthen communication and coordination to better support school districts.”

Bump’s report suggests that DCF and the state education department, known as DESE, collaborate on creating and maintaining an electronic “dynamic list” of students in foster care to improve tracking, but also for analysis of trends and for future financial planning. She also recommends the state create an “electronic backpack,” a database that would allow school districts to quickly access education information on foster children.

Someone is going to make a whole bunch of money.  I wonder which tax exempt foreign corporation will be the lucky ones to get the first contract?  Backpacks are a popular idea when it comes to trafficking tiny humans, and other humans around them, and hacking computer systems in the schools you know.

The report does not indicate which state agencies should pay for these initiatives.

Have no fear! Someone will have a child welfare NGO pitch some more pretty shiny brochures, with a really cool website, to pitch the Medicaid contract to implement human assent management systems.  You know they like to start tracking humans at pre-birth, now-a-days.



Happy Child Abuse Propaganda Month

The report notes that providing educational services to foster children poses a “financial strain” on local schools that is not offset by local tax revenue or state funding. The state pays some money toward educating these students, but the report said it’s not clear whether this reflects “the true cost” for local districts.

We still function on the arcane system of administrative operations in chattels.

Bump’s warning about the lack of adequate education funding for foster children comes as the state Legislature is engaged in a broader debate about how to boost state aid to school districts across Massachusetts.

Broader debate is called litigation.  Massachusetts has an issue with stealin' in its Children's Trust Fund.

Bump also suggests DCF and DESE should jointly provide training to DCF social workers and local school district staff on how to collaborate to make the best decisions for foster children’s educational placements, and for sharing information.

I have a much more economical response.  STOP STEALIN' TINY HUMANS!

Local school districts also are struggling to transport foster children to and from school, and to pay those costs, as foster children often are enrolled in one school district but live in another, the report said. Federal law requires that changes in school placements for students in foster care be minimized to lessen their trauma, and that unless it’s determined to be in their best interest, children should remain in the school district they were in prior to foster care.

Minimization and lessening of trauma for children in foster care is called "drugging children".  It is far more profitable and compassionate to chemically constrain a kid.

To meet those transportation needs, schools reported spending a total of $3.2 million just last year, the report said.

Yet DCF officials told Bump’s office that the department’s social workers are also dedicating a significant chunk of their time, sometimes as much as 40 percent of their time, transporting children to school or family visits.

I would say make a special division to assist the workers to transport the children and the parents to all the services they need to keep the child out the system.

To address the financial concerns, Bump called on the state to cover the full cost of transportation for foster children.

Good. Tap into those foreign children's trust funds bank accounts.  It is their money. Give it back.

The toll on children from this instability is considerable. Bump’s report said studies have found foster students lost from three months to one year of academic achievement each time they are moved to another school.

Children's Rights, a group I really have no respect for their work, as it is nothing but a attorney fees grifter scam, did nothing but get a federal monitoring contract for which you can clearly see, in this state, pretty shiny brochure, that not a damn thing has been done for the children, except for more money to be demanded.


The money spent on this litigation and monitoring could have gone to helping "The Poors" so the children would not have to be legally kidnapped.
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