District Campus Liaison Directory Link

https://www.rgccisd.org/566099_3

The  McKinney-Vento Homeless Education Assistance Act

http://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/prelim@title42/chapter119/subchapter6/partB&edition=prelim

The Mckinney-Vento Education Assistance act is a federal law that provides services to families and unaccompanied youth that live in a temporary situation due to loss of housing.

Eligibility for services due to temporary living situations

• Living in shared housing due to loss of housing, economic hardship, or a similar reason.
• Living in motels, hotels, trailer parks, cars, substandard housing, abandoned buildings, and/or campgrounds
• Living in emergency or transitional shelters
• Being an unaccompanied youth (not living with a parent or guardian) living in a temporary situation
• Being a migratory child who is living in any of the above circumstances

Parent and Student Educational Rights

• Immediate enrollment
• Removal of barriers to school enrollment
• School selection
• Transportation assistance (school bus)
• Immediate eligibility for free child nutrition

Mail application for a birth record (if needed)

-Foster/Homelessness fee exempt

https://www.dshs.state.tx.us/vs/doc/Texas-Birth-Certificate-Application.pdf

Below are links to additional information on Homelessness and Education online

• Texas Education for Homeless Children and youth
• Texas Education Agency
• U.S. Department of Education
• National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty
• National Coalition for the Homeless
• National Center for Homeless Education at SERVE
• Texas Homeless Network
• National Alliance to End Homelessness
• National Association for the Education of Homeless Children and Youth (NAEHCY)
• SchoolHouse Connection