• If you feel like you meet the eligibility requirements under the McKinney-Vento Law, contact Christine Anderson at 763-506-6919 or the district liaison Karrie Schaff at 763-433-4695.

    According to the McKinney-Vento Act, homeless students are defined as lacking a fixed, regular and adequate nighttime residence, including children who are: 
    1. Sharing the housing of other persons due to loss of housing or economic hardship;
    2. Living in motels, hotels, trailer parks or camping grounds due to the lack of adequate accommodations;
    3. Living in emergency or transitional shelters;
    4. Are abandoned in hospitals;
    5. Awaiting foster care placement;
    6. Living in public or private places not designed for or ordinarily used as a regular sleeping accommodation for human beings;
    7. Living in cars, parks, public spaces, abandoned buildings, substandard housing, transportation stations or similar settings;
    8. Migratory children living in conditions described in the previous examples.
    9. Unaccompanied youth who are not in the physical custody of a parent or guardian.