McKinney-Vento Homeless Educational Rights

The McKinney-Vento Act is a federal law passed to help families who are homeless keep their children in school.

Definition of homelessness—The term “homeless children and youth” means individuals who lack a fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime residence, and can include the following situations:

• Living with a friend, relative or someone else because they lost their home.
• Staying in a motel or hotel.
• Living in an emergency or transitional shelter or domestic violence shelter.
• Staying in substandard housing.
• Living in a car, park or public place, abandoned building or bus station.
• Living in a campground or an inadequate trailer home.
• Abandoned in a hospital.
• Living in a runaway or homeless youth shelter.

Questions and/or additional information related to McKinney-Vento may be directed to Cornerstone Charter Academy’s McKinney-Vento liaison: Mohamad Chehaitli, Counselor, mchehaitli@cornerstonek12.org or (336) 482-3855 and North Carolina State Coordinator, Lisa Phillips lphillip@serve.org.