1. Subgrantee Meeting October 5, 2017 UNC- Lowry Campus

2. Agenda Welcome and Introductions ESSA Changes and Implementation
Connections Activities
ESSA Changes and Implementation
What is impacting this work?
Resources and Other Information
Liaison’s Toolkit
NCHE
Disaster Response
Misc Updates that impact you
Lunch
Trauma and School Personnel
Crosswalk between McKinney-Vento and Foster Care
Wrap-up and Q&A

3. Welcome Introduce Self Role of State Coordinator
School District?
How long you have been a Liaison?
Greatest success?
Why do you do this work?
Role of State Coordinator
Vision
How can I support your role?
Site visits
Team-building Activities

4. How to Preparing for the Year Ahead
Revisit your roles and responsibilities
Introduce yourself or reconnect with school staff
Set-meetings with district level partners
Title I
Transportation
Data– End of Year Data
Hang posters
Connect with community partners
Stock up
School Supplies
Hygiene products
Gift cards

5. Roles and Responsibilities of the Liaison
Identify, enroll and reduce barriers for students to fully participate in school.
Inform parents and/or guardians of their rights
Publically post educational rights
Mediate disputes
Stay informed of transportation services and assist with transportation arrangements
Collect and submit data

6. McKinney-Vento (Homeless Education) Under Title IX, Part A of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA)

7. McKinney-Vento: ESSA Overview
The ESSA was signed into law on December 10, 2015
ESSA reauthorized Title VII, Part B of the McKinney- Vento Act, effective October 1, 2016
“Awaiting foster care placement” removed from McKinney-Vento definition for eligibility on December 10, 2016
Establishes foster care as a separate population from McKinney-Vento (homeless) students
Provisions for homeless under Title I, Part A take effect in the school year

8. McKinney-Vento Under ESSA
Several provisions in ESSA strengthened best practices under the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB)
The red text on the following slides are the changes to McKinney-Vento under ESSA
The blue text on the following slides were previously in the law and remain under ESSA

9. Educational Rights of Children and Youth Living in Transition
A Homeless Education Liaison in every school district
Right to immediate enrollment
Choose between the neighborhood school, the school last enrolled or attended
Transportation to the school of origin
Immediately receive free school meals and access to other school resources
Automatic eligibility to Title IA

10. School Stability Under ESSA
Each LEA shall, according to each child’s or youth’s best interest:
Continue the student’s education in the school of origin for the duration of homelessness, and until the end of the academic year in which the student becomes permanently housed; OR
Enroll in any public school that housed students living where the student is living are eligible to attend (g)(3)(A)

11. School Stability (cont.)
School of origin is the school attended when permanently housed or school in which last enrolled, including a preschool (g)(3)(I); Guidance N-4
U.S. Education Guidance (N-4): To the extent that an LEA offers a public education to preschool children, including LEA-administered Head Start programs, an LEA must meet the McKinney-Vento Act requirements for homeless children in preschool, including ensuring that a homeless child remains in his or her public preschool of origin, unless a determination is made that it is not in the child’s best interest. (See sections 721(1), 722(g)(1)(F)(i), 722(g)(3)(I)).

12. School Stability (cont.)
School of origin includes the designated receiving school at the next grade level for feeder school patterns, when the student completes the final grade level served by the school of origin.
Student enrolled in School A in grade 5, the final grade level served by School A. Students at School A are designated to attend School B for grade 6. The school of origin for the student at the conclusion of grade 5 would be School B. (Guidance I3)

13. School Stability (cont.)
If the LEA determines that it is not in the student’s best interest to attend the school of origin or the school requested by the parent, guardian or youth, the LEA must provide a written explanation of the reasons for its determination, in a manner and form understandable to such parent, guardian, or unaccompanied youth, including information regarding the right to appeal (g)(3)(B)(iii)

14. Transportation Under ESSA
LEAs must provide transportation to and from the school/preschool of origin, including until the end of the year when the student obtains permanent housing, at a parent’s or guardian’s request (or at the liaison’s request for unaccompanied youth).
If staying in the same LEA, that LEA must provide or arrange transportation to the school of origin.
If crossing LEA lines, both LEAs must determine how to divide the responsibility and share the cost, or they must share the cost equally.
11432(g)(1)(J)(iii); Guidance J5

15. Support for Academic Success: Transitioning to Higher Education
All McKinney-Vento youth must be able to receive individualized counseling from counselors to prepare and improve their readiness for college, including college selection, application, financial aid, and on- campus supports (g)(1)(K); Guidance Q1
Liaisons must ensure unaccompanied youth are informed of their status as independent students and obtain verification of that status (g)(6)(A)(x)(III); Guidance Q2
Single Points of Contact (SPOC) eless_hespocs

16. Support for Academic Success: Credit Accrual and School Climate
LEAs must have procedures to ensure McKinney-Vento students receive appropriate full or partial credit, such as: consulting with prior school about partial coursework completed; evaluating students’ mastery of partly completed courses; offering credit recovery (g)(1)(F)(ii); 11432(g)(6)(A)(x); Guidance O2
SEAs and LEAs should ensure school personnel consider issues related to homelessness prior to taking disciplinary action. (Guidance p. 33)
SEAs and LEAs should provide training on the traumatic impacts of homelessness and how to provide trauma-informed support. (Guidance p. 34)

17. Support for Success: Title I, Part A
Amendments take effect school year.
McKinney-Vento students attending any school in the LEA are automatically eligible for Title IA services USC 6315(c)(2)(E); Guidance M1
State report cards must disaggregate achievement and high school graduation data for McKinney-Vento students. 20 USC 6311(h)(1)(c)
Therefore, it is important to report homeless students correctly by SASID for end-of-year reporting
All LEAs that receive Title IA funds must reserve (set aside) the funds necessary to provide homeless children services comparable to services provided in Title IA schools. 20 USC 6313(c)(3)
Colorado has been reporting this, but now we will be compared nationally, so it is important the correct students are reported by SASID

18. Title IA Set-Asides
LEAs must reserve (or set aside) the funds necessary to serve homeless children who do not attend Title IA schools, including educationally related support services
Funds may be used for children/youth attending any school in the LEA
Includes providing educational support services to children in shelters and other locations where homeless children may live

19. “According to Title I, Part A, each LEA must reserve funds as necessary to provide services to homeless children who are attending elementary, middle, or high schools that are not Title I, Part A schools (20 USC 6313(c)(3)(A), 2001). Services provided by the set-aside funds for homeless students may differ from those normally provided to other students receiving Title I, Part A services, but they must be comparable to services normally provided by the program. Districts may provide a wide variety of educationally related support services to students experiencing homelessness;”

20. Resources Colorado Department of Education
Understanding Liaison Roles and Responsibilities
LEA Homeless Liaison Toolkit:
NCHE Issue Briefs
NCHE Webinars
National Association for the Education of Homeless Children and Youth (NAEHCY)
2017 NAEHCY Conference- Chicago, October 29-31
Interpreting the Law
Frequently Asked Questions
Important Dates

21. Additional Information
Data Collection- coming soon!
Feed the Children
Disaster Response Resources
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National Runaway and Homeless Youth Awareness Month- November
NN4Y Toolkit
Calendar

22. Crosswalk of McKinney-Vento and Foster Care Requirements
Both
Foster
Best interest determination with priority given to wishes of parent/guardian/UHY (Section I of US Dept. of Ed Guidance)
School of origin rights/best interest determination
Placement determined by Best Interest Determination meeting (Child Welfare invites Schools)
LEA(s) must provide school of origin transportation (Section J of US Dept. of Ed Guidance)
Right to receive transportation to school of origin
Transportation agreements (MOU) between Child Welfare and LEA’s
Immediate enrollment even without records; school to assist in obtaining records (Section I of US Dept. of Ed Guidance)
Right to immediate enrollment even without records
Immediate enrollment; school of origin will release immediately, receiving school will request records immediately
Local funds, set-aside mandatory for Title I, Part A funds (Section M of US Dept. of Ed Guidance), McKinney-Vento subgrant
Funding sources
Title I, Part A of the ESSA (for additional costs only)
Title IV, Part E of the Social Security Act (matching requirement)

23. Q&A/Survey