The Little Chute Area School District recognizes the unique needs of students living in transitional situations due to financial hardship. Students in these living situations have certain educational rights under the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act.
Definition of Homelessness under the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act
The McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act defines homeless children and youth as those who lack a fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime residence. The law provides several examples of situations that meet the definition.
This includes children and youths:
- Sharing housing due to a loss of housing, economic hardship, or a similar reason
- Living in hotels, motels, trailer parks, or camping grounds due to a lack of alternative adequate housing
- Living in emergency or transitional shelters
- Abandoned in hospitals
- Living in a public or private place not designated for, or normally used as, a regular sleeping accommodation for human beings
- Living in cars, parks, public spaces, abandoned buildings, substranded housing, bus or train stations, or similar places; and/or living in one of the above circumstances and who are migratory
School-Aged Children who are considered homeless have a right to:
- Receive a free, appropriate public education
- Enroll in school immediately, even if lacking documents normally required for enrollment, or having missed application or enrollment deadlines during any period of homelessness
- Continue attending in the school of origin (the school the child attended when permanently housed or the school in which the child was last enrolled), or enroll in the locate attendance area school
- Receive transportation to and from the school or origin
- Receive educational services comparable to those provided to other students, according to each student's needs
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