McKinney-Vento Homeless Education Assistance

The McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act ensures homeless children and youth have equal access to the same free and appropriate public education, including a public preschool education, as provided to other children and youths. 

Homeless students are defined as lacking a fixed, regular and adequate nighttime residence, including:
1. Sharing the housing of other persons due to loss of housing, economic hardship, or similar reason;
2. Living in motels, hotels, trailer parks or camping grounds due to the lack of alternative adequate accommodations;
3. Living in emergency or transitional shelters;
4. Being abandoned in hospitals;
5. Living in public or private places not designed for or ordinarily used as regular sleeping accommodations for human beings;
6. Living in cars, parks, public spaces, abandoned buildings, substandard housing, transportation stations or similar settings; and
7. Migratory children living in conditions described in the previous examples.
 

For more information about the McKinney-Vento Homeless Education Assistance Act, please Click Here.

The Bedford Public Schools has an approved policy concerning rights and services provided for homeless students. To view the policy, please Click Here.

The Bedford Public Schools Homeschool Liaison is Assistant Superintendent Tricia Clifford, Ed. D. The Assistant to the Homeless School Liaison for the Bedford Public Schools is Erin Crowley (781) 275-7588.  All questions concerning homeless student rights and services should be directed to her attention.

Staff Contacts

Name Title Phone
Dr. Tricia Clifford Assistant Superintendent - Homeless Liaison (781) 275-7588
Erin Crowley Executive Assistant (781) 275-7588
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