HB 2373-S - DIGEST |
(AS OF HOUSE 2ND READING 2/14/14) |
Requires the office of the superintendent of public instruction to: (1) Report to the governor and the legislature certain data for homeless students; |
(2) In collaboration with experts from community organizations on homelessness and homeless education policy, develop or acquire a short video that provides information on how to identify signs that indicate a student may be homeless, how to provide services and support to homeless students, and why this identification and support is critical to student success; and |
(3) Adopt and distribute to each school district, best practices for choosing and training school district-designated homeless student liaisons. |
Requires school districts to, on an annual basis, strongly encourage: (1) All school staff to review the video; and |
(2) Every district-designated homeless student liaison to attend trainings provided by the state to ensure that homeless children and youth are identified and served. |
Requires school districts to: (1) Include information about services and support for homeless students in existing materials that are shared with students at the beginning of the school year or at enrollment information; and |
(2) Report annually to the superintendent of public instruction, dropout rates for student populations in each of the grades seven through twelve by homeless status. |
Provides that this act is null and void if appropriations are not approved. |