School-Age Care

Information about schools and school-age child care

Contact the local public school to find information about how to enroll your child in school. The GreatSchools.net Web site at http://www.greatschools.net/ can help you locate local schools. It provides addresses and additional information about public, private, and charter schools in all 50 States.

A child care resource and referral agency (CCR&R) in the area where you now live can help you find available and affordable school-age child care. Contact Child Care Aware, a free, Federally funded service, at http://www.childcareaware.org or at 800-424-2246 to find a local CCR&R.

The McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act, Subtitle VII-B, is the Federal law that entitles children who are homeless to a free, appropriate public education. It requires schools to remove barriers to the enrollment, attendance, and success in school. The act, "Education for Homeless Children and Youth Program - Title VII-B of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act, as amended by the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 Non-Regulatory Guidance, July 2004" is on the Web at http://www.ed.gov/programs/homeless/guidance.pdf. Additional information on the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act is available from the National Coalition for the Homeless on the Web at http://www.nationalhomeless.org/publications/facts/McKinney.pdf. Homeless children and children in their host families are also eligible for free lunches in the Child and Adult Care Food Program.

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