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Wex sent in: >Perhaps it is time for him to stop playing classroom size against the >great need to improve an agency in whose care 48,000 children are >entrusted and give some thought to productive tax reform.

1. Make sure families are acting as FOSTER GUARDIANS.  Not strangers.  Less monetary outlay, better outcomes. 2. Hire driver and lease mini-vans to ferry DCF’s children around to their numerous appointments to therapists, psychiatrists, court, etc.  Sure is cost-effective; School Districts use those bus contractors all the time. $8 an hour bus drivers and $7 an hour aides, would save DCF tons of money. 3. Have schools arrange a day to have foster children visited by DCF.  Let the children tell about Foster Care honestly. Most kids trust their teachers more than DCF cw’s anyway.  They CERTAINLY SEE MORE OF THEM. 4. Bring some efficiency and business management skills to DCF.  They certainly NEED ‘EM. http://www.CPSWatch.com/fl/   Florida offshoot of CPSWatch.com

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Have children visited at school?  No!  This is not the answer to anything and, in fact, complicates matters and discriminates against foster children further. Further, most foster children are terrified of caseworkers.  Sherm. "Fern5827" <fern5…@aol.com> wrote in message

news:20030120092018.04883.00000319@mb-cg.aol.com… – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> Wex sent in: > >Perhaps it is time for him to stop playing classroom size against the > >great need to improve an agency in whose care 48,000 children are > >entrusted and give some thought to productive tax reform. > 1. Make sure families are acting as FOSTER GUARDIANS.  Not strangers. Less > monetary outlay, better outcomes. > 2. Hire driver and lease mini-vans to ferry DCF’s children around to their > numerous appointments to therapists, psychiatrists, court, etc.  Sure is > cost-effective; School Districts use those bus contractors all the time. > $8 an hour bus drivers and $7 an hour aides, would save DCF tons of money. > 3. Have schools arrange a day to have foster children visited by DCF.  Let the > children tell about Foster Care honestly. > Most kids trust their teachers more than DCF cw’s anyway.  They CERTAINLY SEE > MORE OF THEM. > 4. Bring some efficiency and business management skills to DCF.  They certainly > NEED ‘EM. > http://www.CPSWatch.com/fl/   Florida offshoot of CPSWatch.com

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Editorial: DCF short-ended  Governor should make fewer excuses, offer concrete tax-reform solutions January 17, 2003 In an unguarded moment during a meeting with constituents in Tallahassee before the last election, Gov. Jeb Bush said he had a "devious plan" if the proposed constitutional amendment mandating smaller classes was adopted. He later said he didn’t know a reporter was present when he made the comment, and didn’t mean exactly what he said. But it now seems as if he’s putting some sort of plan into action aimed at the amendment. Bush may be trying to portray the classroom size amendment as a 900-pound gorilla dominating the state’s money supply. Faced with a request for more money from the embattled and much-criticized Department of Children and Families, Bush said he had little money to give the agency because of the demands of the class-size amendment. DCF Secretary Jerry Regier, who took over the department in September, is asking Bush for an increase of $473 million on his $3.6 billion budget for fiscal 2003-2004. Bush said DCF will get only a portion of the request because he must divert funds to meeting the terms of the class-size amendment. He said he will accept Regier’s suggestion that case workers be paid at the national average, but he will not go as high as Regier wants in creating new positions. Certainly, Bush is correct that Florida faces enormous financial problems. But they were brought on largely through cuts to the utilities tax, intangibles tax and lesser taxes; the draining of the multimillion-dollar surplus left by the administration of Gov. Lawton Chiles; and a poor national economy. The governor and his allies in the Legislature also have resisted efforts for a meaningful reform in Florida’s system of taxation, the last of which was put forward by former Senate President John M. McKay, R-Bradenton, during the 2002 legislative session. When he first was elected, Bush promised to clean up DCF. The giant agency’s inefficiency had been a major campaign issue for him. And though he’s made some progress, the department still needs help and salaries that are competitive on the national level. There are still childen missing from DCF care, and Bush now the most powerful governor in Florida history cannot escape responsibility for the failures or successes of the agency. Perhaps it is time for him to stop playing classroom size against the great need to improve an agency in whose care 48,000 children are entrusted and give some thought to productive tax reform. http://www.tcpalm.com/tcp/the_news_editorials/article/0,1651,TCP_1033… Barbara has one of the best web site for foster parents at http://www.fosterparents.com/ Barbara has all kind of info for foster parents from online training to a chat room there is also a page with links to  with your state agency. http://www.fosterparenting.com/   There also great info on http://www.fosterclub.com/grownups/index.html You can get tons of support/information here. http://www.kuddlekids.com/ There is also a web ring for foster parents if you go to  http://o.webring.com/webring?ring=fostercarering;list there is a list of sites in ring You can do a net search using http://www.yahoo.com/ http://www.google.com/ You can go to http://www.copernic.com/  and get Copernic 2001 basic for free, it will search  obtain fast, relevant results from the greatest number of information sources 18 and categories available on the Internet!

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