McKinney-Vento Act

In PVSchools, every learner is empowered for a lifetime of excellence and each decision and interaction is handled with every student’s success and well-being a priority.

The McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act (Subtitle B of Title VII) protects the rights of highly mobile students by ensuring they have immediate access to public education. Originally incorporated into No Child Left Behind as Title X-C, the act requires every public school district and charter holder to designate a homeless liaison to identify and support students aged 2–18 who lack a fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime residence.

Under this statute, students are eligible for protections if they: 

• Live in a hotel or motel;
• Live in a shelter/transitional housing program;
• Sharing housing with another family due to loss of housing, stemming from economic hardship;
• Live in a trailer park or campsite due to the lack of adequate living accommodations;
• Live in an abandoned building, parked car, or other facility not designed as regular sleeping accommodation for human beings;
• Lives with another person due to the death or incarceration of a parent
• Lives as a youth on their own due to abandonment or runaway status  

What services are provided?

Eligible students may qualify for the following:

• Free Breakfast and Lunch
• Assistance with School Supplies, Fees, Uniform Assistance, Etc.
• Before/After School Programming
• Referrals to community agencies
• Transportation, if applicable