• Every child has a right to an education. The McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act protects the rights of homeless children and youth to receive a free and appropriate public education. Homeless students are defined as those students who lack a fixed, regular and adequate nighttime residence, including students:

    • Sharing housing due to loss of housing, economic hardship, or a similar reason
    • Living in motels, hotels, trailer parks, camping grounds due to a lack of alternative, adequate accommodations
    • Living in emergency & transitional shelters
    • Abandoned in hospitals
    • Living in public or private places not designed for or ordinarily used as regular sleeping accommodations for human beings
    • Living in cars, parks, public spaces, abandoned buildings, bus or train stations or similar situations
    • Migratory children living in the above situations
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    Mari Casole
    678-535-6131

    Homeless Liaison     

     

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