SB 6074-S - DIGEST |
(DIGEST AS ENACTED) |
Requires the office of the superintendent of public instruction to: (1) Report certain data for homeless students to the governor and the legislature; |
(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: (1) Encourage all school staff to annually review the video; |
(2) Encourage every district-designated homeless student liaison to attend trainings provided by the state to ensure that homeless children and youth are identified and served; and |
(3) Include information about services and support for homeless children in existing materials that are shared with students at the beginning of the school year or at enrollment. |
Requires school districts to report annually to the superintendent of public instruction, dropout rates for student populations in each of the grades seven through twelve by identified homeless status. |
Requires the state institute for public policy to calculate an annual estimate of the savings resulting from any change in the extended graduation rate compared to the prior school year. |