The Board of Regents on Thursday unanimously passed the Nevada Foster Care Fee Waiver initiative that will increase the chances of educational access and success for Nevada\u2019s foster children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The program focuses on people who have aged out of the Foster Care system by addressing the perpetual educational inequities of foster children by adopting a fee waiver program. It allows individuals to register for credit without a registration fee or certain laboratory fees, similar to the current waiver for members of the Nevada National Guard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThese students face incredible challenges, through no fault of their own, having lost families, homes, and hope for a brighter future,\u201d said NSHE Chancellor Thom Reilly. \u201cThis initiative can give access to higher education, opportunity, and a better future to an under-served group of people in our state.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Nevada is the 29th<\/sup> state in the nation to implement such a waiver program. The program will begin in January and feature a partnership with Clark and Washoe counties, which would provide mentors to the foster care students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This fiscal impact for creating a foster care waiver program is estimated to be $115,000 for the first group of students based on the 2018-19 approved base registration fee and a college continuation rate of 20 percent of foster youth, or about 47 students. Eligibility of the program will begin at 14 years of age.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI\u2019m eager for this program to begin,\u201d said Board of Regent Chair Kevin J. Page. \u201cIt provides a way out for youth who have tremendous difficulty and hardship. Education is the great equalizer and now foster youth can have a chance.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1164,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"categories":[40,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1432","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-40","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nshe.nevada.edu\/system-administration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/1432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nshe.nevada.edu\/system-administration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nshe.nevada.edu\/system-administration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nshe.nevada.edu\/system-administration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1432"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nshe.nevada.edu\/system-administration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nshe.nevada.edu\/system-administration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nshe.nevada.edu\/system-administration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nshe.nevada.edu\/system-administration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}