Title IX, Part A McKinney-Vento Education for Homeless Students
The Homeless Education Program ensures access to a free appropriate public education (FAPE) for children and youth experiencing homelessness in accordance with McKinney-Vento Homeless Education Act, Title VII-B, reauthorized in 2002 as part of the No Child Left Behind Act. The Program for the Education of Homeless Children and Youth provides the following services:
- Transportation
- Educational Support and Remediation Service
- School Supplies
- Community Based Resources
Homelessness Defined
- The McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act (Act), 42 U.S.C. Section 1143a (2) et.seq., identifies homeless students as those who meet one of the following criteria:
- Lack of a fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime residence;
- Share the housing of other persons due to the loss of housing, economic hardship, or a similar reason; live in motels, hotels, trailer parks, or camping grounds due to the lack of alternative adequate accommodations; live in emergency or transitional shelters; are abandoned in hospitals; or are awaiting foster care placement;
- Have a primary nighttime residence that is a public or private place not designed for or ordinarily used as a regular sleeping accommodation for human beings;
- Live in cars, parks, public spaces, abandoned buildings, substandard housing, bus or train stations, or similar settings; or
- Are migratory and live in the conditions set forth in items 2, 3, and 4 above.