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As you consider how to use and distribute federal education emergency response dollars, we are writing to ask you to direct a substantial portion of these funds toward the educational needs of students in foster care and students experiencing homelessness.  \nThe COVID-19 pandemic has required schools to shift from a traditional school building-based model and adapt quickly to delivering instruction at a distance. Under these circumstances, it would be difficult for any student to embrace learning, but it is especially challenging for highly-mobile students who are in foster care or experiencing homelessness. Many of these students do not have a parent or caregiver with the capacity to assist them in staying on track with their education, let alone a safe and stable place to participate meaningfully in remote instruction.  \nBefore COVID-19, students in foster care and students experiencing homelessness were already academically far behind their peers. They are having to deal with additional obstacles such as navigating the child welfare system or not having a safe and stable place to sleep at night due to their high mobility, challenges worsened by our existing structural and racial inequities. Highly-mobile students are more likely to be students of color, receive special education services, and be English Language Learners. Academic disparities and disproportionality will only persist, evolve, and worsen over time without adequate school and community supports. More than ever, we must not exacerbate existing barriers to students accessing quality education.  \nProject Education Impact, continued under SHB 2711, is a workgroup comprising state agencies and nonprofit partners serving students in foster care and students experiencing homelessness. As members of that workgroup, Building Changes and Treehouse sought insight from across the state to develop recommendations to meet the emergent needs of highly-mobile students during this COVID-19 crisis. We, the nonprofit partners, developed the enclosed recommendations on how to best use the Education Stabilization Fund dollars based on our experience in advocating for and implementing programs that specifically serve both student populations. We also spent time listening and learning from homeless liaisons, foster care liaisons, and Treehouse education staff. This group represents over 19,000 students in 32 counties and 124 school districts across the state. We were able to hear directly from those working with students to understand their needs, current barriers, and promising practices that are being deployed.  \nAs our state prepares to distribute emergency education funds, we ask that you use the federal funds available to the Governor and the state Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction to strengthen critical supports, provide guidance, and prioritize resources to meet the needs of students in foster care and students experiencing homelessness who are often the furthest from opportunity.  \nSincerely,  \nRecommendations on Meeting the Educational Needs of Students Experiencing Foster Care and Homelessness:  \nWashington has approximately 40,000 students experiencing homelessness, 5,000 students in foster care in the K-12 system, 821 youth in Extended Foster Care, and an estimated 800 youth and young adults who were previously in foster care during high school that are at risk of becoming homeless. These youth experience the worst education outcomes of any student group in our state.  \nBased on our experience and a statewide survey with staff serving highly mobile students, four broad themes emerged in how to structure our state response using the federal funds available to the Governor and the Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction:  \n1. 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