MO HB2413

Department of Elementary and Secondary Education must ensure all school districts implement criteria to remove barriers to educational success for foster care children, including timely enrollment, flexible course placement, and participation in extracurricular activities.

Receiving schools must initially honor course placements, educational program placements, and individualized education programs (IEPs) from sending schools, with ability to waive prerequisites and conduct subsequent evaluations.

Schools must facilitate on-time graduation by waiving specific graduation courses if comparable coursework was completed elsewhere, accepting alternative exams, or providing alternative means of acquiring required coursework.

Foster care students transferring in senior year who cannot graduate from receiving school are eligible to receive a diploma from sending school if they meet that school's graduation requirements.

Expands MO HealthNet eligibility to include foster care adults under 23 years of age who are enrolled full-time in a postsecondary educational institution.