AB 224: Pupils: educational liaison for foster children: notice of educational rights of foster children.

Existing law requires each local educational agency, as defined, to designate a staff person as the educational liaison for foster children, as defined. Existing law requires the educational liaison to ensure and facilitate the proper educational placement, enrollment in school, and checkout from school of foster children, and to assist foster children when transferring from one school to another school or from one school district to another school district in ensuring the proper transfer of credits, records, and grades.

This bill would require the State Department of Education, in consultation with the California Foster Youth Education Task Force, to develop a standardized notice of the educational rights of foster children, as specified, and to make the notice available to educational liaisons for foster children for dissemination by posting the notice on its Internet Web site.. The bill would also make conforming and nonsubstantive changes.

This bill would incorporate changes to Section 48204 of the Education Code proposed by both this bill and SB 200, which would become operative only if both bills are enacted and become effective on or before January 1, 2016, and this bill is chaptered last. The bill would incorporate changes to Sections 48853 and 48853.5 of the Education Code proposed by this bill and AB 379 which would become operative only if both bills are enacted and become effective on or before January 1, 2016, and this bill is chaptered last. The bill would incorporate changes to Section 317 of the Welfare and Institutions Code proposed by this bill, SB 238, and SB 316, to be operative only if this bill and either or both of those bills are chaptered and become effective on or before January 1, 2016, and this bill is chaptered last.