If you are experiencing homelessness, there are resources that can be provided to you. Please visit with your campus counselor for specific supplemental resources available to students that are identified as eligible for McKinney-Vento Services.

Subtitle VII-B of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act, reauthorized by Title X, Part C, of the No Child Left Behind Act, ensures educational rights and protections for children and youth experiencing homelessness. Homelessness is a lack of permanent housing resulting from extreme poverty, or, in the case of unaccompanied youth, the lack of a safe and stable living environment.

The term “homeless children and youth”—

• (A) Means individuals who lack a fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime residence …; and
• (B) Includes—
  • (i) children and youths who are sharing the housing of other persons due to loss of housing, economic hardship, or a similar reason; are living in motels, hotels, trailer parks, or camping grounds due to the lack of alternative accommodations; are living in emergency or transitional shelters or are abandoned in hospitals.
  • (iii) children and youths who are living in cars, parks, public spaces, abandoned buildings, substandard housing, bus or train stations, or similar settings; and 
  • (iv) migratory children who qualify as homeless for the purposes of this subtitle because the children are living in circumstances described in clauses (i) through (iii).
  • (ii) children and youths who have a primary nighttime residence that is a public or private place not designed for or ordinarily used as a regular sleeping accommodation for human beings … 

The McKinney-Vento Liaison for Marble Falls ISD is Yarda Leflet, Assistant Superintendent of Curriculum & Instruction.  If you have any questions or concerns, please contact Yarda Leflet at: yleflet@mfisd.txed.net or at 830-798-3654

If you have any questions, please contact Yarda Leflet, Assistant Superintendent of Curriculum & Instruction, at: yleflet@mfisd.txed.net