Grundy County Schools

Policy 6.503-Homeless Students

The Grundy County Board of Education is committed to educating youth experiencing homelessness and will serve each student according to the student’s best interest. A homeless student shall have equal access to the same free, appropriate public education as provided to other children and youths.

Students experiencing homelessness are individuals who lack a fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime residence. Homeless students include:

1. Students sharing the housing of other persons due to loss of housing, economic hardship, or similar reason; students living in motels, hotels, trailer parks, or camping grounds due to the lack of alternative adequate accommodations; students living in emergency or transitional shelters; or students abandoned in hospitals;

2. Students who have a primary nighttime residence that is a public or private place not designed for or ordinarily used as a regular sleeping accommodations for human beings;

3. Students living in cars, parks, public spaces, abandoned buildings, substandard housing, bus or trains stations, or similar settings; and

4. Migratory students who are living in circumstances described above.

 

Grundy County Homeless Liaisons:

 
Grundy County District Homeless Coordinator:                  Val Nunley                                                                    

North Elementary School ENABLE Liaison:                        Mary Alice Campbell

Pelham Elementary School ENABLE Liaison:                    Sharon Morrison

Swiss Memorial Elementary School ENABLE Liaison:       Alexis Kirk

Tracy City  Elementary School ENABLE Liaison:               April Dalton

Grundy County High School  ENABLE Liaison:                 Angie Lewis