Washington State is looking for foster parents, saying that the gap between kids and potential placements is worrying. As it is now, there are about 8,400 kids in care, but only 5,800 foster homes.

Not only concerned by a lack of available local placements that often results in kids having to be moved to far-flung parts of the state, Washington is also dealing with a legal obligation to increase the number of foster parents by 10% per year as the result of a legal settlement in 2004 filed on behalf of the state's foster kids who had been bounced around, separated from siblings and placed inappropriately.

The state has now taken to hiring private contractors to recruit foster parents.

Some special needs kids in Georgia are going to private schools this year under the state's new Special Needs Scholarship program. A renewable voucher for between $2,000 and $15,000 is reportedly allowing families to afford to send their kids and eligible students to enroll.

Not without controversy, the program has some worried about the impact on public schools, while others take issue with timing that seems to say "yes, but" to too many students ... yes, you would be accepted, but we're full up ... or find the vouchers not near enough.

In addition to having trouble finding a school, other families found they couldn't afford the difference between the voucher — which is equal to what the state would have spent on the child's special education services in public school — and tuition. At Woodward, which has programs to assist students with learning disabilities, tuition for special-needs children tops out at $26,700 a year.

A couple of reunion stories are making headlines, both about sisters today.

This one is a touching tale of a woman in her 60s who lost one sister to a drug overdose, then had another she'd known nothing about find her.

She had wondered if she had blood sibs, but the circumstances of her birth ... married father who wanted to keep everything about her hush-hush, mother relinquishing ... made it difficult.

Then there's this story of twins meeting again after 35 years.

Aside from finding that they look alike, some interesting similarities came to light as the two learned about each other, and the process provided enough material for a book, "Identical Strangers: A Memoir of Twins Separated and Reunited," which is to be released Oct. 2 by Random House.