California Education Code

§ 42921

EDC § 42921 Effective Jan 1, 2025Div. 3 · Title 2 · Part 24 · Ch. 11.3

Statute text

(a)A county office of education, or a consortium of county offices of education, may apply to the Superintendent for grant funding, to the extent funds are available, to operate an education-based foster youth services coordinating program to provide educational support for pupils in foster care.

(b)Each foster youth services coordinating program operated pursuant to this chapter, if sufficient funds are available, shall have at least one person identified as the foster youth educational services coordinator. The foster youth educational services coordinator shall facilitate the provision of educational support pursuant to subdivisions (d) and (e) to any pupil in foster care residing or attending school in the county or consortium of counties.

(c)For purposes of this chapter, a pupil in foster care means a foster youth, as defined in subdivision (b) of Section 42238.01, a foster child who is detained in a county-operated juvenile detention facility, or a child who is the subject of a petition filed pursuant to Section 602 of the Welfare and Institutions Code and has been identified by a county child welfare agency, probation department, or Indian tribe that entered into an agreement pursuant to Section 10553.1 of the Welfare and Institutions Code as being at imminent risk of removal and placement into foster care.

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Legislative history

Amended by Stats. 2024, Ch. 850, Sec. 1.5. (AB 3223) Effective January 1, 2025.