Virginia Public Radio

More than 70,000 Virginia children are provided homes or shelter by someone other than their biological parents.  Kinship care diversion helps many of them avoid foster care, but not all children have that option due to enrollment barriers in SOME school divisions. Now Governor McDonnell is being criticized for vetoing a bill with bipartisan support that would have made school enrollment easier for relatives.  But as Virginia Public Radio’s Tommie McNeil reports, at least one Democratic lawmaker says the Governor made the right decision.