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This page gives you basic information about the education of homeless youth.
Who is homeless?
(McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act of 2001 . Title X, Part C of the No Child Left Behind Act . Sec 725)
The term homeless children and youth….
(A) means individuals who lack a fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime residence; and
(B) includes:
(i) children and youths who are sharing the housing of other persons due to loss of housing, economic hardship, or similar reason; are living in motels, hotels, trailer parks, or camping grounds due the lack of alternative accommodations; are living in emergency or transitional shelters; are abandoned in hospitals; or are awaiting foster care placement;
(ii) children and youths who have a primary nighttime residence that is a public or private place not designed for or ordinarily used as a regular sleeping accommodation for human beings.
(iii) children and youths who are living in cars, parks, public spaces, abandoned buildings, substandard housing, bus train stations, or similar settings; and
(iv) migratory children who qualify as homeless for the purposes of this subtitle because the children are living in circumstances described in clauses (i) through (iii).
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