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McKinney-Vento Homeless Education Assistance Act: Ensuring Education for Homeless Children

Learn about the McKinney-Vento Homeless Education Assistance Act that provides assistance and support for homeless children to ensure they have access to education. This act defines the various categories of homeless children and outlines the services and provisions available to them. Transportation, enrollment disputes, parental involvement, and barriers to success are also addressed.

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McKinney-Vento Homeless Education Assistance Act: Ensuring Education for Homeless Children

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  1. McKinney-Vento Homeless Education Assistance Act Title X Part C No Child Left Behind Act - 2001 “Our children need adults who focus on results.” Secretary Rod Paige

  2. Definitions of Homeless Children and Youth • Lack fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime residence • Share housing (due to loss or hardship)

  3. Definitions of Homeless Children and Youth • Live in hotels, motels, trailer homes, campgrounds, emergency or transitional shelters, abandoned in hospitals, awaiting foster care • Primary nighttime residence not designed or ordinarily used as a regular sleeping accommodation

  4. Definitions of Homeless Children and Youth • Live in cars, parks, public spaces, abandoned buildings, substandard housing, bus, or train stations

  5. Definitions of Homeless Children and Youth • Unaccompanied youth (youth not in the physical custody of a parent or guardian) • Migrant children who qualify as homeless because of their living situation

  6. McKinney-Vento Homeless Education Assistance Act • Comparable Services – services offered to other students in the school selected • Transportation services • Educational services • Meals through school nutrition programs

  7. McKinney-Vento Homeless Education Assistance Act Other Definitions • Enroll and Enrollment include – right to attend classes and participatefully in school activities • School of Origin – school that child or youth attended when permanently housed or last enrolled

  8. Transportation: The Number One Barrier • The FY 2000 McKinney-Vento Report to Congress cited lack of transportation as the number one barrier that homeless children and youth faced in attempting to enroll in and attend school regularly. • Researchers estimate that it takes a child from four to six months to recover academically from school transfers.

  9. McKinney-Vento Homeless Education Assistance Act • Parental Options and Involvement • Requires parents and guardians to be fully informed of the enrollment options and educational opportunities available. • Requires parents to be informed of right to have the district transport children to the school of origin.

  10. McKinney-Vento Homeless Education Assistance Act • Enrollment Disputes • Admit child or youth immediately to school selected by parent/guardian or youth pending resolution of dispute • School must provide parent/guardian or youth with written explanation of decision including statement of rights

  11. School Barriers to Success • Frequent mobility • Lack of staff awareness • Inability to complete school assignments

  12. McKinney-Vento Homeless Education Assistance Act • Comparable Services – services offered to other students in the school selected • Transportation services • Educational services • Meals through school nutrition programs

  13. McKinney-Vento Homeless Education Assistance Act • Role of LEA LIAISON • Assist unaccompanied youth/parentswith placement, enrollment, and knowing their rights • Disseminate public notices of educational rights • Inform and assist with accessing transportation • Mediate enrollment disputes

  14. McKinney-Vento Homeless Education Assistance Act • Integration of Children and Youth Experiencing Homelessness • Prohibits segregation of studentsinto separate schools or separate classrooms within schools • SEAs and LEAs must adopt policies and practices to ensure that children are not stigmatized or segregated on the basis of their status as homeless

  15. Coordination with Title I • Title I requires that districts must provide services for children and youth who live in homeless situations • Children and youth experiencing homelessness are automatically eligible to receive Title I services by virtue of their homelessness

  16. Title I Requirements • Reservation of Title I Funds - a local education agency needs to reserve funds to provide comparable services for eligible homeless children who do not attend participating schools, including providing educationally related support services to children in shelters and other locations where children may live. - Sec. 1113

  17. Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction • Mary Maronek, Coordinator • Education for Homeless Children and Youth (EHCY) Program • P.O. Box 7841 • Madison, WI 53707-7841 • mary.maronek@dpi.state.wi.us • www.dpi.state.wi.us/homeless/ehcynew.html

  18. Contact Information National Center for Homeless Education (NCHE) Diana Bowman, Director Helpline: 1-800-308-2145 Email: homeless@serve.org http://www.serve.org/nche U.S. Department of Education John McLaughlin, Federal Coordinator McKinney-Vento Program Email: john.mclaughlin@ed.gov www.ed.gov/OFFICES/CEP

  19. Additional Organizations • National Coalition for the Homeless www.nationalhomeless.org • National Law Center for Homelessness and Povertywww.nlchp.org • National Association of the Education of Homeless Children and Youthwww.naehcy.org • National Network for Youthwww.NN4Youth.org

  20. McKinney-Vento Homeless Education Assistance Act “We stand on the brink of comprehensive change in the culture of education .” Secretary Rod Paige

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