The Law

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• Type of Policy:  The McKinney-Vento Act is a distributive policy that was formed to address the needs of homeless students in America.  The costs of this policy are shared by all tax payers. 

• _Current Status: H.R. 5417 was signed into law on October 30, 2000.  It was amended most recently in 2001 as part of the No Child Left Behind Act known as the McKinney-Vento Homeless Education Assistance Improvements Act of 2001. 
  

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This document shows the entire re-authorization of the Mc-Kinney-Vento act from 2001. 

An overview of the McKinney-Vento act can be found in this document.