Education for Homeless Children and Youth

Education for Homeless Children and Youth

Legislation & Guidance

Guidance from US Department of Education and Questions and Answers on the McKinney-Vento Act:

• Education for Homeless Children and Youth Program -- Title VII-B of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act, United States Department of Education, last updated July 2004
• The McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act -- Reauthorized January 2002 Subtitle B of title VII of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 11431 et seq.)
• Updated USDOE Responses to McKinney-Vento Requirements -- Transportation, Preschool, and Foster Care
• Transitional Housing Clarification -- Comprehensive briefs with extensive information. This letter is in response to questions asked to the United States Department of Education
• Updated Guidance for Homeless Children in the Child Nutrition Program-- This memo further defines and clarifies the unique eligibility provisions that should be applied to homeless children and the Child Nutrition Programs last updated July 2002
• Reauthorization of Child Nutrition Programs Implementation Update #1-- USDA has issued several policy memos already relating to certain provisions of the law, as well as other recent changes updated July 2004
  
  
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For more information please contact:
Dana Scott at (303) 866-6930 or e-mail:  scott_d@cde.state.co.us