McKinney-Vento Project

What To Do Next

Step 1: Contact your campus registrar or counselor

Step 2: Ask for the McKinney-Vento Liaison

Step 3: Call our office at (210)-407-0194 if you need help

Program Enrollment

• Student Residency Questionnaire
• Student Residency Questionnaire (Spanish)
• Summer School Tuition Assistance Form

• Transportation
• Free Meal Eligibility
• Immunization Requirements

Dispute Information

• Dispute Policy
• Dispute Procedure
• Dispute Form

McKinney-Vento rights in Texas

• Enroll and attend school, no matter where they lived or how long they have lived there
• All services provided comparable to those offered to non-homeless children and youth, including transportation
• Choice to remain in their "school of origin" or transfer to a school in their current attendance area
• Enrollment in school despite the lack of a permanent address or the lack of school records
• Access to Free Lunch Program
• Right to dispute Resolution when denied school enrollment
• Enroll in school without giving a permanent address, school records or immunization documents required for school enrollment

Eligibiility

Homeless Definition

The Stewart B. McKinney Assistance Act of 1994 is the primary federal legislation that directly addresses the education of homeless children and youth.  The McKinney Act is important in educating homeless children for the following reasons:

• It defines homelessness;
• It requires that all homeless youth have access to a free and appropriate education;

• It requires every state to review and revise all laws, regulation, practices or policies that may act as a barrier to the enrollment, attendance, or success in school of homeless children;

• It stipulates that homelessness alone should not be sufficient reason to separate students from the mainstream school environment;

• It requires that homeless children and youth have access to the education and services they need to ensure them an opportunity to meet the same challenging state standard to which all students are held;

• It requires state education agencies to appoint a Coordinator for the Education of Homeless Children and Youth;

• It requires each state to adopt a plan to provide for the education of each homeless child or homeless youth within the state; and

• It allocates money for the states to distribute in competitive, descretionary grants for programs that are created to meet the needs of homeless children.