Posted on August 1, 2016 by Liz Dwyer in TakePart TakePart, By Liz Dwyer They sleep in cars, shelters, or trailer parks or doubled up in bedrooms, but thanks to new guidance from the U.S. Department of Education, America’s 1.3 million homeless students should soon find it easier to enroll and succeed in the nation’s public schools. The guidelines, released last week, build on existing rules in the federal McKinney-Vento Education for Homeless Children and Youths. The McKinney-Vento rules, which are designed to ensure school districts protect and serve homeless kids, were expanded and reauthorized last December when the Every Student Succeeds Act replaced the No Child Left Behind Act. The latest guidelines go into effect in October.
