McKinney-Vento

McKinney-Vento Act is a federal law ensures each child of a homeless individual and homeless youth has equal access to the same free, appropriate public education, including a public preschool education.  In 2016-17  DCS identified 110 students eligible under the McKinney-Vento Law.

Your child may be eligible if living:

• in a motel or hotel
• doubled up with other people due to loss of housing or economic hardship
• in an emergency or transitional shelter or domestic violence shelter
• in a car, park or public place or abandoned building
• in a campground