No. HB 857
Filed under Education.
Student Support Services for K-12 Schools; Authorizes district school boards to recommend, endorse, or refer students to organizations providing specified student support services; provides requirements for district school boards, district school superintendent, schools, & organizations providing such services; provides requirements relating to Level 2 background screenings for specified persons.
Plain English Summary
AI-GENERATEDDistrict school boards gain authority to refer students to outside organizations providing mentoring, counseling, tutoring, and extracurricular programs.
Organizations must ensure every person contacting students completes a Level 2 background screening, whether services occur on or off campus.
Mentoring organizations claiming to serve a single race or ethnicity must prove diverse staffing before districts may refer students to them.
Superintendents must submit detailed compliance reports to the Department of Education upon request, including student demographic data.
AIGrants district school boards the power to refer students to external organizations providing mentoring, counseling, tutoring, and extracurricular programs.
AIRequires organizations that publicly claim to serve a single race or ethnic group to provide written proof of diverse staff before the district can refer students to them.
AIMandates that every person who comes into contact with students or is present in the building during service delivery must have a completed Level 2 background screening.
AIRequires district superintendents to submit a report to the Department of Education within 30 days of a request, including disaggregated demographic data of students served.