Duxbury Public Schools provides various types of support for students experiencing homelessness in order to help them attend school consistently. Eligible families may be living in shelters or may not have their own lease because they temporarily stay with family members or acquaintances due to economic hardship or similar reasons. Contact Beth Wilcox, Assistant Superintendent and the district’s McKinney-Vento Homeless Act Coordinator, at 781-934-7600.

What is McKinney-Vento?
The McKinney-Vento Act covers children and youth without fixed, adequate, and regular nighttime residence, including living …

• in a shelter;

• in a motel, hotel, or campground; in a car, bus, train station, an abandoned building, or some other inadequate accommodation or with other people due to loss of housing, economic hardship, or similar reason (also known as doubled up). This includes migrant and unaccompanied youth living in the above situations.

Students enrolling under McKinney-Vento have the right to:

• immediate enrollment, even if they do not have the required documentation

• attend the school they attended when they became homeless or the last school they attended (school of origin)

• immediate enrollment, even if they do not have the required documentation

• attend the school they attended

• transportation to the school of origin if it’s in another district (if appropriate).

• access special education services if the student has a current IEP

• participate in school activities that are available to other students

• free breakfast & lunch