The McKinney-Vento Act is a federal law passed to help families who are homeless keep their children in school.

The term “homeless children and youth” means individuals who lack a fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime residence, and can include the following situations:

• Living with a friend, relative or someone else because the child lost his or her home
• Staying in a motel or hotel
• Living in an emergency or transitional shelter or domestic violence shelter
• Staying in substandard housing
• Living in a car, park or public place, abandoned building or bus station
• Living in a campground or an inadequate trailer home
• Abandoned in a hospital
• Living in a runaway or homeless youth shelter

Questions and/or additional information related to McKinney-Vento may be directed to:

Revolution Academy’s McKinney-Vento liaison, Michele Harris at [email protected] or

North Carolina State Coordinator, Lisa Phillips at [email protected]