McKinney-Vento Homeless Education Assistance

Melrose Public Schools
McKinney-Vento Homeless Education Assistance District

Homeless Education Liaison:

Gregory Zammuto
360 Lynn Fells Parkway
Melrose, MA 02176
gzammuto@melrose.mec.edu
Phone   - 781-979-2290
Fax       - 781-979-2149 

Melrose Public Schools complies with the McKinney-Vento Homeless Education Assistance Act and its goal to ensure that each homeless child or youth has equal access to the same free, appropriate public education, including a public preschool education, as provided to other children and youths. 

To the extent practical and as required by law, the district will work with homeless students and their families to provide stability in school attendance and other services. Special attention will be given to ensuring the enrollment and attendance of homeless students not currently attending school. Homeless students will be provided district services for which they are eligible, including Head Start and comparable pre-school programs, Title I, similar state programs, special education, bilingual education, vocational and technical education programs, gifted and talented programs and school nutrition programs. 

• Homeless students are defined as lacking a fixed, regular and adequate nighttime residence, including:
• Sharing the housing of other persons due to loss of housing or economic
• hardship;
• Living in motels, hotels, trailer parks or camping grounds due to the lack of alternative adequate accommodations;
• Living in emergency or transitional shelters;
• Being abandoned in hospitals;
• Awaiting foster care placement;
• Living in public or private places not designed for or ordinarily used as regular sleeping accommodations for human beings;
• Living in cars, parks, public spaces, abandoned buildings, substandard housing, transportation stations or similar settings;
• Migratory children living in conditions described in the previous examples 

Resources are available through the City of Melrose Mayor's Office - Mayor's Emergency Fund by calling 781-979-4440.

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