Title X Part C No Child Left Behind Act - 2001

“Our children need adults who focus on results.”Secretary Rod Paige

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Definitions of Homeless Children and Youth

Lack fixed, regular, Lack fixed, regular, and adequate and adequate nighttime residencenighttime residence

Share housing (due Share housing (due to loss or hardship)to loss or hardship)

Definitions of Homeless Children and Youth

Live in hotels, motels, trailer Live in hotels, motels, trailer homes, campgrounds, emergency homes, campgrounds, emergency or transitional shelters, abandoned or transitional shelters, abandoned in hospitals, awaiting foster carein hospitals, awaiting foster care

Primary nighttime residence not Primary nighttime residence not designed or ordinarily used as a designed or ordinarily used as a regular sleeping accommodationregular sleeping accommodation

Definitions of Homeless Children and Youth

Live in cars, Live in cars, parks, public parks, public spaces, spaces, abandoned abandoned buildings, buildings, substandard substandard housing, bus, or housing, bus, or train stationstrain stations

Definitions of Homeless Children and Youth

Unaccompanied Unaccompanied youth (youth not youth (youth not in the physical in the physical custody of a custody of a parent or parent or guardian)guardian)

Migrant children Migrant children who qualify as who qualify as homeless because homeless because of their living of their living situationsituation

McKinney-Vento Homeless Education Assistance Act Comparable Services – services Comparable Services – services

offered to other students in the offered to other students in the school selectedschool selected

Transportation servicesTransportation services

Educational servicesEducational services

Meals through school nutrition Meals through school nutrition programsprograms

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Other Definitions Enroll and Enrollment Enroll and Enrollment

include – right to include – right to attend classes and attend classes and participateparticipate fullyfully in in school activitiesschool activities

School of Origin – School of Origin – school that child or school that child or youth attended when youth attended when permanently housed permanently housed or last enrolledor last enrolled

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.

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Parental Options and Involvement

• Requires parents and guardians to be fully Requires parents and guardians to be fully informed of the enrollment options and informed of the enrollment options and educational opportunities available.educational opportunities available.

• Requires parents to be informed of right to have Requires parents to be informed of right to have the district transport children to the school of the district transport children to the school of origin.origin.

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Enrollment Disputes

Admit child or youth Admit child or youth immediately immediately toto school selected by parent/guardian school selected by parent/guardian or youth or youth pending resolution of disputepending resolution of dispute

School must provide parent/guardian or youth School must provide parent/guardian or youth with with written explanation of decision written explanation of decision including including statement of rightsstatement of rights

School Barriers to Success Frequent Frequent

mobilitymobility

Lack of staff Lack of staff awareness awareness

Inability to Inability to complete school complete school assignmentsassignments

                      

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offered to other students in the offered to other students in the school selectedschool selected

Transportation servicesTransportation services

Educational servicesEducational services

Meals through school nutrition Meals through school nutrition programsprograms

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Role of LEA LIAISON

Assist Assist unaccompanied youth/parentsunaccompanied youth/parents with with placement, enrollment, and placement, enrollment, and knowing their rightsknowing their rights DisseminateDisseminate public notices of educational public notices of educational rightsrights

Inform and assistInform and assist with with accessing transportationaccessing transportation

MediateMediate enrollment disputes enrollment disputes

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Integration of Children and Youth Experiencing Homelessness

Prohibits Prohibits segregationsegregation of students of studentsinto separate schools or separate into separate schools or separate classrooms within schoolsclassrooms within schools

SEAs and LEAs must adopt policies and SEAs and LEAs must adopt policies and practices to ensure that children are practices to ensure that children are not not stigmatizedstigmatized or segregated on the basis of their or segregated on the basis of their status as homelessstatus as homeless

Coordination with Title I

Title I requires that districts Title I requires that districts must provide services for must provide services for children and youth who live children and youth who live in homeless situations in homeless situations

Children and youth Children and youth experiencing homelessness experiencing homelessness are automatically eligible to are automatically eligible to receive Title I services by receive Title I services by virtue of their homelessnessvirtue of their homelessness

Title I Requirements

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

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.wi.gov www.dpi.state.wi.us/homeless/

Contact Information

National Center for Homeless Education (NCHE)

Diana Bowman, DirectorDiana Bowman, DirectorHelpline: 1-800-308-2145 Helpline: 1-800-308-2145 Email: homeless@serve.orgEmail: homeless@serve.org http://www.serve.org/nchehttp://www.serve.org/nche

U.S. Department of EducationJohn McLaughlin, Federal , Federal

CoordinatorCoordinatorMcKinney-Vento Program McKinney-Vento Program

Email: john.mclaughlin@ed.govEmail: john.mclaughlin@ed.govwww.ed.gov/OFFICES/CEPwww.ed.gov/OFFICES/CEP

Additional Organizations National Coalition for the HomelessNational Coalition for the Homeless

www.nationalhomeless.org www.nationalhomeless.org National Law Center for Homelessness and National Law Center for Homelessness and

PovertyPoverty www.nlchp.org www.nlchp.org National Association of the Education of National Association of the Education of

Homeless Children and YouthHomeless Children and Youth www.naehcy.org www.naehcy.org

National Network for YouthNational Network for Youth www.NN4Youth.orgwww.NN4Youth.org

“We stand on the brink of comprehensive change in the culture of education .”

Secretary Rod Paige

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