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The New York State Technical and Education Assistance Center for
Homeless Students (NYS-TEACHS)
If you live in any of the
following situations...
- In an emergency or
transitional shelter
- In a motel, hotel, trailer
park, campground, abandoned in a hospital or awaiting foster
care
- In a car, park, public
place, bus or train station or in an abandoned building
- Doubled up with a relative
or friend
- As a migratory child in any
of the above conditions
...you have rights and
protections under the federal McKinney-Vento Homeless Education
Assistance Act. You have the right to:
- Attend
school - no matter where you live or how long you
have lived there. You must be given immediate access to the same
public education provided to other students.
- Continue
in the school - you attended before you became
homeless or the school you last attended. You have a
choice.
- Support
in accessing education - via the district's local
Homeless Education Liaison: this Liaison is mandated to explain
to you the federal law that protects your education rights while
homeless as well as support and assist you in your efforts in
securing those rights.
- Transportation
- to school and school programs.
- Attend
and participate - in school programs with students
who are not homeless. Students cannot be separated from their
permanently-housed peers due to homelessness.
- Enroll
and attend immediately -
a. while school arranges for
transfer of school immunization records or other required
documents; schools cannot require proof of residency that might
prevent or delay school enrollment.
b. while enrollment dispute
is resolved.
For information and
assistance, please contact:
- NYS-TEACHS
Kate Ventura/Director, (631) 232-4064, fax: (631) 232-4072,
e-mail, kventura@esboces.org
- New York State Education
Department/Education of Homeless Children & Youth
Shelia Evans-Tranumn/Coordinator, (718) 722-2796, Pat McGuirk/Program
Manager (518) 474-5283
- National Center for
Homeless Education, (800) 308-2145
- Colleen Ulrich,
Gloversville District Liaison for the Homeless, (518) 775-5796
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