New funding for the Windsor-Essex Children's Aid Society will give students the opportunity to stay in their home school when they are placed in care.
The Ministry of Education has provided the CAS with $303,000 to work with both local school boards to give students more transportation options.
In the past, when students were placed in foster care they often had to move schools if their foster home was not in their original school district. Now the funding will give boards the opportunities to change bus routes when possible, or will provide funds to foster families to provide transportation to the home schools.
Lyle Ward with the Windsor-Essex Children's Aid Society says this funding is important to lessen the stress in children's lives in the midst of upheaval.
"So often the school is a safe place for them, and so our goal is to maintain that school placement as much as possible," says Ward.
The transportation plan will remain in place until a natural transition in the school year.
