Education for Homeless Children and Youth Program: Learning to Succeed. Volume 1: Reducing Barriers for Homeless Children for Access and Achievement

摘要

In 1987, Congress enacted the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act to confront the problems of homelessness in the United States. The act was amended in 1990 and 1994. This study is a follow-up to one completed in 1995, which looked at the educational provisions for homeless children and youth prior to the implementation of the 1994 amendments. It describes and analyzes four areas of state and local activity: (1) changes in education and services to homeless children and youth under the reauthorized McKinney Act; (2) services and activities of the state Office of the Coordinator of Education of Homeless Children and Youth, an office that the McKinney Act established in each state education agency (SEA); (3) the McKinney Act subgrant award process, and how LEAs with McKinney subgrants supplement the services available to homeless children and youth as well as remove the barriers to their enrollment and success in school; and (4) the establishment of programs and policies for homeless students in local education agencies (LEAs). Data collection for this study included a survey of all state coordinators of education of homeless children and youth and site visits to a sample of seven school districts that received McKinney grants and seven that did not receive McKinney grants.