Federal Programs

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.

As a public charter school, Yi Hwang Academy of Language Excellence is considered an independent school district by the state and federal government.
Therefore, we qualify by waiver, for federal Title I funding allocated to our entire student body, instead of just those students living in poverty.

FY 25 – Title I – School, Parent and Family Engagement Plan

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FY 25-YHALE Parent- Student-Teacher Compact- Orientation

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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 [email protected] if you have any questions.