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............Responsibilities
of Local School Districts
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Responsibilities of local school
districts to homeless students include:
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- To remove any barriers to
education and to improve educational
opportunities and outcomes for
children and youth experiencing
homelessness.
- To allow and promote access in all
programs offered by the school and
to refrain from any segregation,
discrimination or stigmatization of
such students;
- Consistent with the wishes of the
parent or guardian, to keep a
homeless child or youth at his or
her “school of origin” as
defined in state and federal law;
- To adopt a policy and practice for
providing appropriate transportation
services to enable homeless children
and youth to attend the school of
origin;
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- To provide notice throughout the
community and at all school
locations of the rights of, and
services for, homeless children and
youth
- To review and revise any policies,
websites, forms and other similar
items that may act as barriers to
the success of homeless children and
youth
- To provide outreach to homeless
families and youth to ensure that
all school-age and pre-school age
children not enrolled in school are
promptly enrolled;
- To provide a fair process for
resolving disputes as set forth in
the Homeless Student Dispute
Procedures;
- To immediately enroll all homeless
students in free breakfast and lunch
programs and to waive any of the
fees or charges that are subject to
waiver under the Illinois fee-waiver
rules; and
- To capture data regarding homeless
children and youth as required by
the Illinois State Board of
Education and federal law.
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