McKinney Vento Act

The purpose of the McKinney Vento Act is paying the excess cost of transportation not otherwise provided through Federal, State, or local funds, to enable students to attend schools selected under section 722(g)(3) of the McKinney-Vento Act.

Summary of H.R. 3205: The Homeless Education Improvement Act of 2007
H.R. 3205, which was introduced in the House of Representatives in July of 2007, was originally sponsored by Representatives Judy Biggert (R-Ill.), Raul Grijalva (D-Az), and John Sarbanes (DMd).-Vento’s Education for Homeless Children and Youth program is a part. Create a separate funding stream for the transportation of homeless children and youth. Congress would be authorized to spend up to $35 million a year for transportation to schools of origin, preschool programs, academic support services, before and after school

WHO ARRANGES TRANSPORTATION?
The logistics of providing transportation to the school of origin require information and organization. Someone must request transportation. Schools must know where the child is living and must be informed immediately of placement changes. In Pima County, AZ, the education agency and child welfare agency agreed that caseworkers would contact the homeless liaison to request transportation, and the liaison would make the arrangements.

The State and its local educational agencies will adopt policies and practices to ensure that transportation is provided, at the request of the parent or guardian (or in the case of an unaccompanied youth, the liaison), to and from the school of origin.

We do our best to provide the most economical transportation and in a timely factor. When students cross school district lines, require school districts to equally share the costs of school of origin transportation unless they reach an agreement to the contrary or the state has some other rule in place.

The bill is a part of a larger effort to reauthorize the No Child Left Behind Act (a.k.a. the Elementary and Secondary Education Act), for which McKinney

H.R. 3205 is generally supported by homeless education advocates, including NLCHP and the

National Association for the Education of Homeless Children and Youth (NAEHCY).

Transportation programs, extracurricular activities, extended school year services, adult education programs, and parent involvement activities.