For more information about your student(s) rights under the McKinney-Vento Homeless Act please contact the District Homeless Liaison:

Shelby Brown
Email: Shelby Brown

Phone:
(603) 624-6300 x 6006

New Hampshire Department of Education Educational Consultant II -Title IA/ Homeless Education

Christina Dotson

Email: Christina Dotson,

Phone: 603 271-3840

Eligibility Form

Dispute Resolution Form

Liaison Duties

The McKinney-Vento Act states that homeless children and youth are those that lack a fixed, regular and adequate nighttime residence.

A student is considered “homeless” if they lack a fixed, regular and adequate nighttime residence, including:

• Sharing housing due to loss of housing, economic hardship, or a similar reason

• Living in motels, hotels, trailer parks, camping grounds due to a lack of alternative, adequate accommodation

• Living in emergency & transitional shelters

• Living in cars, parks, public spaces, abandoned buildings, bus or train stations or similar situations

• Migratory children living in the above situations

Know your educational rights!!! Under the federal McKinney-Vento Act, children and youth in homeless situations have the right to:

• Enroll in school immediately, even if missing records and documents normally required for enrollment such as a birth certificate, proof of residence, previous school records or immunization / medical records

• Enroll, attend classes and participate fully in all school activities while the school gathers records

• Attend either the local school or the “school of origin”, if this is in the best interest of the student. The “school of origin: is the school the child attended when he / she was permanently housed or the school in which the child was last enrolled

• Receive transportation to and from the “school of origin” if in the best interest of the student

• Have access to the same programs and services that are available to all other student

• Free breakfast and lunch for the school year.