Mission

Lancaster ISD provides advocacy and support services to students and families in transition. The McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act ensures the educational rights and protections for children and youth experiencing homelessness. 

 Homelessness is defined as having a lack of fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime residence and includes:

• Children or youth 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 care placement;
• Children and youth who are sharing the housing of other persons due to loss of housing, economic hardship, or similar reasons;
• Children or youth who have a primary nighttime residence that is a public or private place not designed for or ordinarily used as regular sleeping accommodation for human beings;
• Children or youth living in cars, parks, public spaces, abandoned buildings, substandard housing, bus or train stations, or similar settings.