• Sharing the housing of other persons due to loss of housing, economic hardship, or a similar reason;
• Living in motels, hotels, trailer parks, camping grounds, cars, public spaces, abandoned buildings, substandard housing, bus or train stations, or similar settings due to the lack of alternative adequate accommodations;
• Living in emergency or transitional shelters;
• Abandoned in hospitals;
• Awaiting foster care placement;
• Migratory children who qualify as homeless because they are living in circumstances described above; or
• Unaccompanied youth, including youth not in the physical custody of a parent or guardian, such as runaways and youth denied housing by their families.

2.) The aforementioned youth have the following rights:

1. The right to immediate enrollment in school, even if lacking paperwork normally required for enrollment;
2. The right to attend school in his/her school of origin (if this is requested by the parent and is feasible) or in the school in the attendance area where the family or youth is currently residing;
3. The right to receive transportation to his/her school of origin, if this is requested by the parent;
4. The right to services comparable to those received by housed schoolmates, including transportation and supplemental education services;
5. The right to attend school along with children not experiencing homelessness. Segregation based on a student's status as homeless is strictly prohibited.

The rights of homeless students as defined above shall be posted in all schools and other places around the community.



Title X, Part C of the No Child Left Behind Act
Title VII-B of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Education Act of 2001




Adopted 06/26/03