Homeless Education
The term "homeless children and youth" refers to individuals who lack a fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime residence and includes:
- Children
and youths who are sharing the housing of other persons due to loss of
housing, economic hardship, or a similar reason; are living in motels,
hotels, trailer parks, or camping grounds due to the lack of alternative
accommodations; are living in emergency or transitional shelters; are
abandoned in hospitals; or are awaiting foster placement
- Children
and youths who have a primary nighttime residence that is a public or
private place not designed for or ordinarily used as a regular sleeping
accommodation for human beings
- Children
and youth who are living in cars, parks, public spaces, abandoned
buildings, substandard housing, bus or train stations, or similar
settings
- Migratory
children who qualify as homeless for the purposes of this subtitle
because the children are living in circumstances described above