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Taproot issue 40 - June 2001

Presidents Corner

I can’t believe it’s time for our summer picnic already. I hope to see all of you there and be sure to bring a friend. For directions see the inside flyer.

I would like to thank Joe Kroll from NACAC for speaking at our last support group meeting. Making The Pieces Fit, A Seminar on Transracial/Transcultural Adoption. We had a very good turn out for what turned out to be a lively meeting.

Our next meeting will on the subject of Special Education, IEP’s and your children’s rights. We will have a speaker from The Education Law Center – PA. See inside for details

Have you looked at our Web Home Page lately? We have made some changes. Take a look!

I have just read a news article titled “Wisconsin Judge Rules Foster Children Have Right to Sue State For Speedy Adoption Under Adoption and Safe Families Act”. The article goes on to say; In the first court ruling of its kind, a federal judge has ruled in the class action lawsuit, Jeanine B v. Scott McCallum, that children in foster care have enforceable federal rights to a speedy adoption and can sue a state for failing to make them legally available for adoption so they can be placed in an adoptive home as required under the Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997. It’s a mouthful but it is very important.

You can read the whole article at www.childrensright.org/press/2001-0625.htm

See you at the picnic!

Phyllis