McKinney-Vento Homeless Educational Rights

MCKINNEY-VENTO ACT

The McKinney-Vento Act is a federal law passed to help families who are homeless keep their children in school.

Definition of homelessness – The term “homeless children and youth” means individuals who lack a fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime residence, and can include the following situations:

• 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 in a campground or an inadequate trailer home.
• Abandoned in a hospital.
• Living in a runaway or homeless youth shelter.

North Carolina Homeless Education Website

Parent/Unaccompanied Youth Rights

NCHE North Carolina Homeless Data

Questions and/or additional information related to McKinney-Vento may be directed to Shining Rock Classical Academy’s McKinney-Vento liaison:

Joshua Morgan, Head of School jmorgan@shiningrock.org(828) 476-5150

North Carolina State Coordinator, Lisa Phillips lphillip@serve.org