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The McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act is the main federal program concerning the education of children and youth experiencing homelessness. It provides federal funding to states, which then distribute the funds to their school districts through a competitive application process; the funds are used to ensure that children and youth experiencing homelessness have access to the free, appropriate public education to which they are entitled under federal law. This publication was developed from the McKinney-Vento Act and Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) administrators one-day web-based policy forum co-hosted by the National Center for Homeless Education (NCHE) and Project Forum at the National Association for State Directors of Special Education (NASDSE). In June 2008, NASDSE and NCHE convened online state and local teams of McKinney-Vento and IDEA Part B and Part C administrators from Colorado, Texas, and Virginia. The purpose of this forum was to develop a collaborative process and identify strategies to enable state and local IDEA and McKinney-Vento staff to think through complex issues from an administrative and policy perspective. This brief was developed to assist in addressing complex issues that arise in applying the McKinney-Vento Act and IDEA to children who experience homelessness and have disabilities. [This brief was collaboratively developed with the National Association for the Education of Children and Youth.]

1Boy Crusoe

By Allan Eric

Also published as" A Yankee Crusoe" . A 15 year old hard working and studious farm boy finds the lure of adventure on the seas as a merchant seaman more than he can resist. This is his story. " I was born in a little town in the State of Maine, near the close of the Civil War. My boyhood life did not differ materially from that of the average farmer's son in the remote country districts of New England--except, perhaps, that I read more and thought more. Hard work on the rugged soil, two terms each year in the little yellow country schoolhouse, a day's fishing now and then filled the early years of my life full to over-flowing. " What he gets is enough excitement and adventure to overflow his wildest dreams. How he experiences disaster and uses his wits and knowledge to overcome every problem makes for a great read. - Summary by Phil Chenevert