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A top priority of mine is ensuring that all of America’s young people have the opportunity to achieve their full potential. Central to making sure our children grow up healthy and thriving is a commitment strengthening the families and communities who raise them – particularly our families and communities most at risk – by providing them with adequate social supports. One of the major challenges in empowering the future of our youth is reforming our foster care system—a system that I believe is the most broken area of federal law. Though Congress has made some progress on these issues, it has been largely incremental. Much more remains to be done, and to truly improve the lives of our foster children we’ll need a new generation of reformers and ideas America’s abused and neglected children are our greatest national tragedy. I serve on the advisory board to the Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute (CCAI) and will continue to be an outspoken advocate of fundamental foster care reform. Every child, no matter where he lives, should have access to a high-quality education and an affordable higher education. This means supporting our teachers and principals by providing appropriate incentives for states and localities as they work to improve the unique education systems of their communities, and fully funding the programs we authorize. It also means providing students and their parents with ways to keep college affordable. Please visit my financial resources link to learn about opportunities for student aid. LATEST NEWS: November 20, 2010 ∙ Op-Ed: Give A Foster Child a Reason for Thanks November 20, 2010 ∙ The Webbs of Cheatham County are Cooper's 2010 Angels in Adoption ∙ September 28, 2010 ∙ Cooper Announces a Multi Million Dollar Grant to Metro Public Schools ∙ Metro Nashville Public Schools will receive a $4 million dollar grant from the US Department of Education for the 2010-2011 school year as part of the Magnet School Assistance Program. April 28, 2010 ∙ Cooper Announces Winner of Tennessee's 5th District Congressional Art Competition ∙ Chelsea Velaga, an eleventh grader at University School of Nashville, won the competition with her pencil drawing "Self Portrait". An Honorable Mention went to McGavock High School eleventh grader Patrick Cartwright for his pencil drawing "Do You Feel What I See?" March 29, 2010 ∙ Tennessee One of Only Two States to Win Race to the Top Grant ∙ The Department of Education awarded Tennessee $500 million in RTTT funding, more than double the amount initially suggested for a state of its size. January 21, 2010 ∙ Tennessee Congressional Delegation Announces Support for Tennessee's Race to the Top Application ∙ Tennessee will compete with forty states and the District of Columbia for a share of more than $4 billion in federal grants money. September 1, 2009 ∙ Cooper Announces Honorees for Angels in Adoption LINKS AND ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute
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