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Student Homelessness in America: School Years 2019-20 to 2021-22

Written by Megan Atchison on . Posted in Uncategorized.

This report provides a summary of demographic data collected by the McKinney-Vento Education for Homeless Children and Youth (EHCY) Program. The report includes an examination of data collected for the 2019-20, 2020-21, and 2021-22 school years. The report provides enrollment totals for students experiencing homelessness, primary nighttime residence at the point of identification, subgroup demographics, and race/ethnicity.

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Published 2025

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Chronic Absenteeism Among Students Experiencing Homelessness in America: School Years 2016-17 to 2020-21

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This brief discusses the number and rate of students who experienced homelessness using school- and district-level data from School Years 2016-17 through 2018-19. School Years 2019-20 and 2020-21 are provided in an appendix, along with a discussion of school district data that highlights differences in the rates of students who were homeless in rural, suburban, town, and urban districts.

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Published 2025

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EHCY Implementation: Beyond the Basics

Written by Max Burns on . Posted in Uncategorized.

Example slide from the PowerPoint slidedeck

EHCY Implementation: Beyond the Basics

This webinar, presenters will cover complex eligibility scenarios, exploring funding strategies to maximize available resources, and improving data collection and analysis practices to strengthen program implementation.

The webinar objectives include:

  • Enhance eligibility determinations by deepening understanding of complex eligibility scenarios, including doubled-up housing, transitional versus permanent housing, and unaccompanied youth considerations.
  • Improve data collection, analysis, and reporting through strengthening data management practices.
  • Develop expertise in advanced McKinney-Vento Act implementation strategies.

Presenters: NCHE Staff

Data recorded: September 23, 2025

Length: 1 hour and 14 minutes

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Homeless Education Data: Understanding and Leveraging Data for Greater Awareness

Written by neeravbm on . Posted in Uncategorized.

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Homeless Education Data: Understanding and Leveraging Data for Greater Awareness

This NCHE tool addresses federal requirements to gather and share reliable, valid, and comprehensive data on children and youth experiencing homelessness (CYEH) while providing context on available data points and their uses. It also includes an editable Homeless Education Data Sheet with space for national, state, and local-level data customization that can be populated to build awareness around the unique experiences of CYEH.

View the tool Homeless Education Data: Understanding and Leveraging Data for Greater Awareness

Download the editable NCHE Homeless Education Data Sheet

In the accompanying webinar, presenters will:

  • Provide an overview of the new NCHE tool, Homeless Education Data: Understanding and Leveraging Data for Greater Awareness.
  • Demonstrate how to complete the NCHE Homeless Education Data Sheet, with detailed step-by-step instructions on how to populate the available fields.

Presenters: NCHE Staff
Date recorded: September 19, 2025
Length: 20 minutes

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Strengthening and Sustaining Your Homeless Education Program through School-Community Partnerships

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Strengthening and Sustaining Your Homeless Education Program through School-Community Partnerships

In this webinar, presenters will cover effective partnerships between schools and community organizations to better serve children and youth experiencing homelessness (CYEH). The objectives of the webinar include:

  • Provide an overview of statutory requirements that establish a framework for cross-systems collaboration to support the academic and non-academic needs of CYEH.
  • Present effective strategies and tools for building successful partnerships and frameworks that remove barriers to educational and housing stability for CYEH.
  • Highlight promising practices and examples of effective collaboration between school and community partners to address the interconnected issues faced by CYEH.

Presenters: NCHE Staff, Sacramento County Office of Education (CA), and Orange County Public Schools (FL)
Date recorded: June 26, 2025
Length: 1 hour and 28 minutes

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Supporting the Education of Unaccompanied Students Experiencing Homelessness

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Supporting the Education of Unaccompanied Students Experiencing Homelessness

This NCHE brief identifies the key provisions of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act related to the education of unaccompanied youth experiencing homelessness and suggests strategies for implementation.

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Published June 2025

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Transporting Children and Youth Experiencing Homelessness

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Screenshot of the first page of the brief summarizing the key provisions related to the transportation of children and youth experiencing homelessness (CYEH).

Transporting Children and Youth Experiencing Homelessness

This brief summarizes the key provisions related to the transportation of children and youth experiencing homelessness (CYEH) included in the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act, resources for funding transportation, and strategies to support the efficient transportation of CYEH.

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Published August 2025

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Serving Students Experiencing Homelessness Under Title I, Part A

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Serving Students Experiencing Homelessness Under Title I, Part A

This NCHE brief from our McKinney-Vento Law Into Practice Series examines the intersection between Title I, Part A and the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act for serving children and youth experiencing homelessness and offers strategies for collaboration.

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Published April 2025

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