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McKinney-Vento

The McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act, ensures the educational rights and protections for children and youth experiencing homelessness.
 
Homelessness is defined as:
     - having a lack of fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime residence and includes
       children and youth who are sharing the housing of other persons due to loss of housing,      
       economic hardship, or similar reasons;
    - children or youth living in motels, hotels, trailer parks, or camping grounds due to the lack of  
      alternative accommodations; are living in emergency or transitional shelters; are abandoned in
      hospitals; or are awaiting foster care placement;
    - children or youth who have a primary nighttime residence that is a public or private place not
      designed for or ordinarily used as regular sleeping accommodation for human beings;
    - children or youth living in cars, parks, public spaces, abandoned buildings, substandard housing,
      bus or train stations, or similar settings.
 
Additional resources can be found at:http://www.theotx.org

For information or assistance, please contact:
 
LeighAnne Jernigan              
Homeless Liaison
Goldthwaite Elementary School
l.jernigan@goldisd.net
325-648-3055
 
Cheryl Wright
Homeless Liaison
Goldthwaite Middle and High Schools
325-648-3081

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Goldthwaite Independent School District

1509 HANNAH VLY RD

GOLDTHWAITE, TX 76844

(325) 648-2456
Public Notice: It is the policy of GCISD not to discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, handicap, or age in its employment practices as required by Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended; Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972; the Age Discrimination Act of 1975, as amended; and section 504 if the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended.
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