Education for Children Experiencing Homelessness

Children and youth experiencing homelessness have the right to a free, appropriate public education.

If you:

  • Live in a shelter or motel
  • Share housing with relatives because you lost your housing
  • Live in a campground, car, old building or other temporary shelter
  • Don’t have a permanent address

You have the right to:

  • Enroll your child in school immediately, even without school or medical records
  • Get help from the District liaison with immunizations and/or medical records
  • Choose your child’s old school or school closest to where you are living now
  • Get transportation to school for your child
  • Dispute enrollment to school for your child
  • Participate in your child’s education

For assistance, please contact your Homeless Education Liaison

Kari Ruh

630-937-8836 or kari.ruh@bps101.net

Or call the Illinois State Board of Education
800-215-6379

Or visit ChipinBatavia.org
Community Helpers Impacting People In Need (CHIP IN) is a wonderful parent group that works in cooperation with Batavia Public School District 101 to support our students.

***The Education for Homeless Children and Youth (EHCY) program is authorized under Title VII-B of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 11431 et seq.) (McKinney-Vento Act).

The McKinney-Vento Act was originally authorized in 1987 and most recently re-authorized in December 2015 by the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA)

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INSCRIBIENDO A SU HIJO(A) EN LA ESCUELA

Si usted:

• Vive en un refugio o motel

• Comparte su vivienda con parientes porque perdió la suya

• Vive en un campamento, un carro, un edificio abandonado o cualquier otro refugio provisional

• No tiene una dirección permannente

Usted tiene el derecho a:

• Inscribir inmediatamente a su hijo(a) en la escuela (aunque no tenga sus documentos médicos o escolares)

• Buscar ayuda del liaison del distrito para las inmunizaciones y/o los documentos médicos

• Escogar de nuevo las escuela donde asistió su hijo(a) vaya a la escuela que le quede más cerca

• Obtener transportación para que sue hijo(a) vaya la escuela

• Protestar las decisions sobre la inscripción de su hijo(a)

• Participar en la educación de su hijo(a)

 

Si necesita ayuda, llame a:

Kari Ruh

630-937-8836 or kari.ruh@bps101.net

 

O llame a la Junta de Educación del Estado de Illinois

800-215-6379