New York State Technical and Education Assistance Center for Homeless Students

Students who transfer schools often do worse in school than those who don't transfer. The McKinney-Vento Act can help solve this problem by allowing students to stay in the same school and get free transportation.

Info by Topic

This section provides information organized by topic about the educational rights of children and youth experiencing homelessness.

Please keep in mind that these are general topics. This guide is meant to provide basic information and tools to help parents, youth, educators and advocates understand the McKinney-Vento Act.

Click on the links below to find out information about these topics.

• Accessing College for Students in Temporary Housing
• Awareness Materials: Videos, Curricula, and Publications
• Charter Schools
• Data Collection and STAC 202
• Data and Statistics on Homelessness
• Dispute Resolution/Appeal Process
• Domestic Violence
• Determining Eligibility for McKinney-Vento
• Enrollment and School Selection
• Federal Laws
• Foster Care
• Free Meals
• Haitian Earthquakes: Information about Students Displaced by Natural Disaster
• Immunizations
• McKinney-Vento Liaisons
• New York State Education Department (NYSED) Laws and Guidance
• Preschool
• Privacy of Student Records
• Research on Homeless Education
• Special Education
• Subgrant Funding (McKinney-Vento Subgrants)
• Summer School
• Teaching Strategies to Reach Highly Mobile Children
• Title I
• Transportation
• Unaccompanied Youth