House steps up foster oversight / Legislature: Bill that curtails privatization at odds with Senate plan
Source: By ROBERT T. GARRETT, The Dallas Morning News (TX), Tuesday, May 22, 2007
A bill that would strengthen protection of foster children – and roll back almost all of the privatization of foster care lawmakers ordered last session – was endorsed by the House on Monday.
…… News reports about the beating deaths of three foster children in North Texas since August 2005 have revealed spotty state oversight of foster care contractors and state officials' lack of information about Texas' nearly 10,000 foster homes.