About 30 percent of high school students in California go on to graduate from college, but only about 8 percent of foster youth make it that far, according to research by the Public Policy Institute of California and the University of Chicago. Young people who spend their teen years in foster care are more likely to land in jail than to earn a college degree.
Those bleak prospects deter some students from even considering higher-ed options.
Under the umbrella of Guardian Scholars programs, former foster youths can get academic guidance and tutoring, help with personal issues like child care and employment, and grants and scholarships that help pay for tuition and housing.
But fewer than half of former foster youths who want to go to college take full advantage of those benefits, or even know they exist.
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