The  McKinney-Vento Homeless Education Assistance Act

http://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/prelim@title42/chapter119/subchapter6/partB&edition=prelim

The Mckinney-Vento Education Assistance act is a federal law that provides services to families and unaccompanied youth that live in a temporary situation due to loss of housing.

Eligibility for services due to temporary living situations

• Living in shared housing due to loss of housing, economic hardship, or a similar reason.

• Living in motels, hotels, trailer parks, cars, substandard housing, abandoned buildings, and/or campgrounds

• Living in emergency or transitional shelters

• Being an unaccompanied youth (not living with a parent or guardian) living in a temporary situation

• Being a migratory child who is living in any of the above circumstances

Parent and Student Educational Rights

• Immediate enrollment

• Removal of barriers to school enrollment

• School selection

• Transportation assistance (school bus)

• Immediate eligibility for free child nutrition

Mail application for a birth record (if needed)

Foster/Homelessness fee exempt

https://www.dshs.state.tx.us/vs/doc/Texas-Birth-Certificate-Application.pdf

Below are links to additional information on Homelessness and Education online

• Texas Education for Homeless Children and youth

• Texas Education Agency

• U.S. Department of Education

• National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty

• National Coalition for the Homeless

• National Center for Homeless Education at SERVE

• Texas Homeless Network

• National Alliance to End Homelessness

• National Association for the Education of Homeless Children and Youth (NAEHCY)

• SchoolHouse Connection