Federal Programs

McKinney Vento

The McKinney-Vento Education for Homeless Children and Youth program is designed to address the problems that homeless children and youth have faced in enrolling, attending, and succeeding in school. Under this program, State educational agencies must ensure that each homeless child and youth has equal access to the same free, appropriate public education, including a public preschool education, as other children and youth.

Homeless children and youth must have access to the educational and other services that they need to enable them to meet the same challenging State student academic achievement standards to which all students are held. In addition, homeless students may not be separated from the mainstream school environment.

States and districts are required to review and undertake steps to revise laws, regulations, practices, or policies that may act as a barrier to the enrollment, attendance, or success in school of homeless children and youth.

Under The McKinney-Vento Homeless Education Act, homeless children and youth are defined as individuals who lack a fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime residence.

Homeless Children and Youth:

  • Are temporarily sharing the housing of other persons due to loss of housing, economic hardship, or a similar reason

  • Are living in motels, hotels, or camping grounds due to the lack of alternative adequate accommodations

  • Are living in emergency shelters

  • Are abandoned in hospitals

  • Have a nighttime residence that is a public or private place not designed for or ordinarily used as a regular sleeping accommodation for human beings

  • Are living in cars, parks, public spaces, abandoned buildings, substandard housing, bus or train stations, or similar settings

  • Are runaway children or children who are abandoned

Please contact McKinney Vento ‘s liaison , Suchada Thepchatri, at sthepchatri@yhale.org if you have any questions.

Title 1

Title I at YHALE

Title I is a program that provides federal funds through the Georgia Department of Education to local educational agencies (LEAs) and public schools, usually with high percentages of children in poverty. This funding helps ensure that all children meet academic content and achievement standards.

YHALE Academy is a schoolwide Title I program. This means all students regardless of economically at-risk within the school can benefit from Title I services.

Parent Engagement Liaison:
Suchada Thepchatri, HR Support
Email: sthepchatri@yhale.org 
Phone: 404-738-6219

Title I : Annual Meeting

Time: Sep 18, 2024 06:30 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

Join Zoom Meeting
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/2300636271?pwd=HhpH6eb4LjVTSlpOXqTgWWstCY5t4b.1&omn=81374465810

Meeting ID: 230 063 6271
Passcode: gxkU0L

We will be reviewing the School Parent Compact and Family Engagement Plan for the 2024-2025 school year.