CLEVELAND, Ohio — Every Ohio public school building would have to designate someone to help students in foster care under a bill that has passed the state House, but schools would not have to hire someone new for the job.
House Bill 25 would create a building-level “foster family navigator” responsible for helping foster-care students connect with services and participate in school. State analysts say the requirement could add work for some schools, but they did not calculate a statewide cost.
These are five takeaways from the original article, which examined what schools would be required to do and what the mandate could cost…