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Title X, Part C, also known as the Homeless Education program, provides homeless children and youth with access to the education and other services needed to ensure that they have an opportunity to meet the same challenging State student academic achievement standards to which all students are held.
Activities of this program may include tutoring, supplemental instruction, and enriched educational services; evaluation of the strengths and needs of homeless children and youth, including needs and eligibility for programs and services; professional development and other activities for educators and pupil services personnel that are designed to heighten the understanding and sensitivity to the needs of homeless children and youth, the rights of such children and youth, and the specific educational needs of runaway and homeless youths; referral services for medical, dental, mental, and other health services; developmentally appropriate early childhood education programs for preschool-aged homeless children; and before- and after-school, mentoring, and summer programs for educational activities.
For more general information on the national effort for educating homeless children and youth, visit the National Coalition for the Homeless web site (http://nch.ari.net/edchild.html).
If you have any questions about the Homeless Education program in Mississippi, contact Gloria White Adams.
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