(1) The department shall establish an oversight committee composed of staff from the office of the superintendent of public instruction, the student achievement council, foster youth, former foster youth, foster parents, and advocacy agencies to develop strategies for maintaining foster children in the schools they were attending at the time they entered foster care and to promote opportunities for foster youth to participate in postsecondary education or training. (2) The duties of the oversight committee shall include, but are not limited to: (a) Developing strategies for school-based recruitment of foster homes; (b) Monitoring the progress of current pilot projects that assist foster children to continue attending the schools they were attending at the time they entered foster care; (c) Overseeing the expansion of the number of pilot projects; (d) Promoting the use of best practices, throughout the state, demonstrated by the pilot projects and other programs relating to maintaining foster children in the schools they were attending at the time they entered foster care; (e) Informing the legislature of the status of efforts to maintain foster children in the schools they were attending at the time they entered foster care; (f) Assessing the scope and nature of statewide need among current and former foster youth for assistance to pursue and participate in postsecondary education or training opportunities; (g) Identifying available sources of funding available in the state for services to former foster youth to pursue and participate in postsecondary education or training opportunities; (h) Reviewing the effectiveness of activities in the state to support former foster youth to pursue and participate in postsecondary education or training opportunities; (i) Identifying new activities, or existing activities that should be modified or expanded, to best meet statewide needs; and (j) Reviewing on an ongoing basis the progress toward improving educational and vocational outcomes for foster youth. [ 2018 c 58 s 58; 2012 c 229 s 594; 2005 c 93 s 2; 2003 c 112 s 4.]
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