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Wilkins, Brittany Taylor; Mullins, Mary H.; Mahan, Amber; Canfield, James P. – Children & Schools, 2016
The federal government enacted the McKinney--Vento Homeless Assistance Act (MVA) to equip schools with services to help alleviate the many barriers students experiencing homelessness face in pursuit of educational opportunities. Educational agencies use federally mandated liaisons to uphold the provisions of the MVA. Despite the homeless liaisons'…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Homeless People, Barriers, Access to Education
Comey, Jennifer; Litschwartz, Sophie; Pettit, Kathryn L. S. – Urban Institute, 2012
How has the recession and its resulting family instability impacted children’s residential and school mobility? Officials from housing, homeless, and school programs discussed the full spectrum of residential mobility in two recent Urban Institute roundtables: from chronic mobility, eviction, and foreclosure to doubled-up households and…
Descriptors: Student Mobility, Economic Climate, Low Income Groups, Housing
Bowman, Diana; Burdette, Paula; Julianelle, Patricia – Project Forum, 2008
Project Forum at the National Association of State Directors of Special Education (NASDSE) and the National Center for Homeless Education (NCHE) worked together to collect information regarding the need for a policy forum on the topic of administrative collaboration between school personnel who support homeless education under the McKinney-Vento…
Descriptors: Early Intervention, Homeless People, Transportation, Disadvantaged Youth