· What is McKinney-Vento, Title VII?
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Title X is the educational rights of homeless children strengthened. The McKinney-Vento Act was reauthorized by President Bush on January 8, 2002. The portion of the McKinney-Vento Act related to the education of homeless children and youth, Subtitle VII-B, requires that local educational agencies carry out policies to ensure that homeless children and youth have access to a free, appropriate public education on the same basis as children and youth with established residences. Laws, regulations, practices or policies should not act as barriers to the enrollment, attendance or school success of homeless students.
Issues that hamper school enrollment of homeless students, such as residency requirements, immunization records, transfer/school records, birth certificates, free/reduced lunch, school fees, and guardianship are addressed under Louisiana law and RS: 17:238, Board of Elementary and Secondary Education Policies.
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Title X Contact person
Diana Russell,DeQuincyElementarySchool Counselor
Phone number: 337-217-4655 Ext. 5606
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Types of Homeless Children and Youth
1. Children living in shelters and transitional housing
2. Children living in motels, welfare hotels or weekly-rate apartments
3. Children living in streets, cards, campgrounds, abandoned buildings, etc.
4. Children living doubled/tripled up
5. Abandoned children
6. Runaways
7. Throwaways
8. Children fleeing domestic violence
9. Highly Moble children and youth
10. Foster Care Children
11. Incarcerated children and youth
12. Migrant children and youth
13. Refugees
14. Immigrants
15. ESL children and youth (English as a Second Language)
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Definition of Homeless or "Highly Mobile" Individuals. . .
The McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act (P.L. 107-110) defines the term "homeless person" as one who lacks a fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime residence and who has a primary nighttime residence that is:
· a shelter/transitional housing, welfare motel
· the strees, cars, abandoned buildings, campgrounds, etc.
· an institution that provides a temporary residence for individuals intended to be institutionalized
· a residence with substandard living conditions (not fit for human habitation-no electricity, no heat, no running water, no windows/doors, holes in the roof/floor, no way to cook/store food
· two or more families living together in crowded or undesirable living conditions, (doubling/tripling-up) because they have no place of their own to live where they can safely and healthfully meet their basic needs in privacy and with dignity.