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Martha Crockett – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of Education for Homeless Children and Youth (EHCY) program in the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act (2015) is to protect the educational rights of students experiencing homelessness across the United States. Despite the coordinated efforts of State and Local Educational Agencies to carry out these mandates and ensure equitable…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Homeless People, High School Students, Graduation Rate
Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, US Department of Education, 2024
This guidance document provides information on the Title I, Part A provisions under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) that address the unique needs of students in foster care, emphasizing educational stability, collaboration between educational and child welfare agencies, and ensuring uninterrupted access to education. This guidance supersedes…
Descriptors: Foster Care, Success, Federal Programs, Low Income
National Center for Homeless Education, 2024
Youth and young adults experiencing homelessness face many challenges while pursuing postsecondary credentials. Low education attainment is occurring in higher education institutions across the county, with more than a quarter of first-year college students not returning for their second year in community college. This National Center for Homeless…
Descriptors: Homeless People, Special Needs Students, Best Practices, Student Experience
Desiree Viramontes – Texas Education Research Center, 2024
Across the U.S., the number of youths who experience homelessness is increasing. The increase of youth homelessness is growing most rapidly for Black and Hispanic students and is occurring in both small and large states. In Texas, one of the states with the largest population of students experiencing homelessness, its youth homeless population is…
Descriptors: Homeless People, African American Students, Hispanic American Students, Racial Differences
Minnesota Department of Education, 2024
The Minnesota Department of Education (MDE) ensures educational equity for multilingual learners through supporting school districts and charter schools to develop, implement and evaluate research-based language instruction educational programs (LIEPs) so that multilingual learners, including students with English learner (EL) status, attain…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Equal Education, Access to Education, Financial Support
Melinda Dyer – Washington Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction, 2024
The federal McKinney-Vento Act broadly defines homelessness in an effort to provide protections and supports for students living in a variety of unstable housing situations. This ensures school stability and continued enrollment at a time when a student's nighttime residence may be constantly changing. In Washington, the number of children and…
Descriptors: Homeless People, At Risk Students, School Districts, Enrollment
Advocates for Children of New Jersey, 2024
Since 1997, Advocates for Children of New Jersey (ACNJ) has published the Newark Kids Count Data Book, a one-stop source for child well-being data on the state's largest city. Newark Kids Count includes the latest statistics, along with five-year trend data, in the following areas: demographics, family economic security, child health, child…
Descriptors: Children, Well Being, Population Trends, Racial Differences