• The McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act, ensures the educational rights and protections for children and youth experiencing homelessness. 

     
    Homelessness is defined as:
    • having a lack of fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime residence and includes
    • children and youth who are sharing the housing of other persons due to loss of housing, economic hardship, or similar reasons;
    • children or youth living in motels, hotels, trailer parks, or camping grounds due to the lack of alternative accommodations; are living in emergency or transitional shelters; are abandoned in hospitals; or are awaiting foster care placement;
    • children or youth who have a primary nighttime residence that is a public or private place not designed for or ordinarily used as regular sleeping accommodation for human beings;
    • children or youth living in cars, parks, public spaces, abandoned buildings, substandard housing, bus or train stations, or similar settings.
      
     
     
    For additional information or assistance, please contact:
     
    Sara Sanders
    Homeless Liaison
    Academy ISD
    sara.sanders@academyisd.net
    254-982-0057