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McKinney-Vento
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The McKinney Vento Act is a federal law passed to help families who are homeless keep their children in school.
In January of 2002, Congress authorized the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act to support the educational needs of children and youth experiencing homelessness. The federal law entitles children who lack a fixed, regular and adequate nighttime residence to a free, appropriate education and requires schools to remove barriers to their enrollment, attendance and success in school. The McKinney-Vento Program meets the needs of homeless students attending Guilford County Schools by addressing academic challenges and family issues affecting their success in school.
Definition of homelessness: The law defines a child or youth as homeless as one who lacks a fixed, regular and adequate residence. The following living situations may qualify under McKinney-Vento law:
- Living with a friend, relative or someone else because they lost their home.
- Staying in a motel or hotel.
- Living in an emergency or transitional shelter or domestic violence shelter.
- Staying in substandard housing.
- Living in a car, park or public place, abandoned building or bus station.
- Living temporarily in substandard housing.
- Living in a campground or an inadequate trailer home.
- Living in a runaway or homeless youth shelter.
- Youth living on their own or has left a permanent living situation.
Total # Students Identified
2022-2023 3,120
2021-2022 2,525
2020-2021 1,643
2019-2020 2,118
2018-2019 2,914
2017-2018 3,247
Please see links below for North Carolina's Homeless Education Data-
