Recently, while researching this followup story about foster children, I was speaking to Irwin Elman, Ontario’s advocate for children and youth. He told me that the Ontario Ministry of Education has pledged to raise the graduation rate for children in care to the provincial average within five years.
Right now in B.C. less than half of children and youth in care turn 19 with a high school credential, while 84 per cent of all people ...
