Title X, Education for Homeless Children and Youth

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Title X, Education for Homeless Children and
Youth

• Florida Department of Education
• Database Webinar
• May 29, 2009
• Lorraine Husum Allen
• Director, Homeless Education Program

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Agenda

• Reporting Requirements
• Data Collection
• Changes to Database
• Bureau of Student Assistances Data Quality
  Process

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Educational Data on Homeless Students

• Homeless data are used for
• Determining program needs
• Measuring program progress
• Reporting required homeless data in USDE Reports
• Providing internal and external data for homeless
  data as requested
• USDE requires homeless data from ALL districts
  that enroll homeless students in Floridas public
  schools, not just districts with homeless
  subgrants

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During 2007-2008, 34,376 Florida students were
identified as homeless in Florida schools.
2007-2008 Florida DOE Data
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2007-2008 Florida DOE Data

• 34,376 homeless students identified in Florida
  public schools (11 increase from 2006-2007)
• 4,691 (14) of those were identified as
  Unaccompanied Youth
• 20,799 (61) were reported as sharing the housing
  of other persons due to loss of housing, economic
  hardship or a similar reason doubled-up (25
  increase from 2006-2007)
• Of the 67 school districts all (99) but 1
  reported homeless students in their schools

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Who is homeless?
The Federal McKinney-Vento Act Definition Homele
ss children and youth are individuals who
lack a fixed, regular, and adequate
nighttime residence.
Source National Association for the Education
of Homeless Children and Youth/National Center
for Homeless Education
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EligibilityWho is Covered?

• Sharing the housing of others due to loss of
  housing, economic hardship, or similar reason
• Living in motels, hotels, trailer parks, camping
  grounds due to lack of adequate alternative
  accommodations
• Living in emergency or transitional shelters
• Abandoned in hospitals
• Awaiting foster care placement

Source National Association for the Education
of Homeless Children and Youth/National Center
for Homeless Education
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EligibilityWho is Covered? (cont.)

• Living in a public or private place not designed
  for humans to live
• Living in cars, parks, abandoned buildings, bus
  or train stations, etc.
• Migratory children living in above circumstances

Source National Association for the Education
of Homeless Children and Youth/National Center
for Homeless Education
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Homeless Unaccompanied Youth

• Definition
• Youth who meets the
• definition of homeless
• and is not in the
• physical custody of
• a parent or guardian

Source National Association for the Education
of Homeless Children and Youth/National Center
for Homeless Education
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2009-2010 Automated Student Info System

• Element Name Homeless Unaccompanied Youth
  Definition/Domain
• A code indicating whether or not a homeless
  student (or student eligible for homeless
  services) is also an unaccompanied youth.
• Section 725 of the 2001 McKinney-Vento Homeless
  Assistance Improvement Act defines unaccompanied
  youth as a youth not in the physical custody of a
  parent or guardian.

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2009-2010 Automated Student Info System

• Element Name Homeless Unaccompanied Youth Code
  Definition - No Changes
• Y Yes, this student is a homeless youth (or
  student eligible for homeless services) who is
  not in the physical custody of a parent or
  guardian.
• N No. This student is homeless (or student
  eligible for homeless services), but does not
  meet the definition of an unaccompanied youth.
• Z Not applicable. This student does not meet the
  definition of a homeless youth (or student
  eligible for homeless services).

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Changes to the Homeless Education Data Elements

• for 2009-2010

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2009-2010 Automated Student Info System

• Changes from 2008-2009 to 2009-2010
• Element Name Homeless Student, PK-12
• Pertaining to Nighttime Residence Codes
• Code A - Separated Awaiting Foster Care from
  A Code
• Code D Reworded definition to match
  McKinney-Vento Act Definition
• Code F Created separate code for Awaiting
  Foster Care Placement

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2009-2010 Automated Student Info System
Element Name Homeless Student, PK-12
Definition/Domain Code students who are/were
homeless or eligible to continue to receive
homeless services using the following primary
nighttime residence codes (based on the students
residence at the time of the students initial
identification by the district as homeless this
school year).
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2009-2010 Automated Student Info System

• Code Definition
• A Living in emergency or transitional shelters,
  FEMA Trailers, abandoned in hospitals.
• B Sharing the housing of other persons due to
  loss of housing, economic hardship or a similar
  reason doubled-up.
• D Living in cars, parks, temporary trailer parks
  or campgrounds due to lack of alternative
  adequate accommodations, public spaces, abandoned
  buildings, substandard housing, bus or train
  stations, public or private place not designed
  for or ordinarily used as a regular sleeping
  accommodation for human beings or similar
  settings.
• E Living in hotels or motels.
• F Awaiting foster care. (Prior to 09-10 this
• category was included in code A.)

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2009-2010 Automated Student Info System
Element Name Homeless Student, PK-12
Definition/Domain Code students who are not or
have not been homeless this school year using the
following code. Code Definition N No,
student is not homeless or has not been homeless
this school year
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2009-2010 Automated Student Info System

• Changes from 2008-2009 to 2009-2010
• Element Name Hurricane Affected Student
• Code W - Created W Code to indicate that
  student changed schools within this district this
  school year due to a hurricane.
• Previously, data element only reflected whether
  student moved to district due to hurricane.

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2009-2010 Automated Student Info System

• NEW ELMENT
• Element Name Homelessness Cause
• Code students who are or were homeless using the
  following causes of homelessness codes for the
  student and/or the students family or guardian.

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Element Name Homelessness Cause New
Element

• CODE DEFINITION
• M Mortgage Foreclosure
• F Natural Disaster- Flooding
• H Natural Disaster- Hurricane
• S Natural Disaster- Tropical Storm
• T Natural Disaster- Tornado
• W Natural Disaster- Wildfire or Fire

CODE DEFINITION D Man-made Disaster (Major)
O Other i.e., lack of affordable housing,
long-term poverty, unemployment or
underemployment, lack of affordable health
care, mental illness, domestic violence, forced
eviction, etc. U Unknown
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2009-2010 Automated Student Info System

• Element Name Homelessness Causes
• New Element
• Code students who are not and have not been
  homeless this school year using the following
  code.
• Code Definition
• Z No, student is not homeless and has not been
  homeless this school year.

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FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION BUREAU OF
STUDENT ASSISTANCE SURVEYS 2, 3, and 5 DATA
QUALITY CONTROL
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2008-2009 SURVEY 2
Survey Week October 13-17, 2008 Due Date
October 31, 2008 State Processing October
20-November 14, 2008 Final Update/Amendment
Date March 31, 2009
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2008-2009 SURVEY 3
Survey Week February 9-13, 2009 Due Date
February 27, 2009 State Processing February
16-March 13, 2009 Final Update/Amendment Date
July 31, 2009
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SURVEY 5
Due Date August 7, 2009 State Processing
August 3 September 4, 2009 Final
Update/Amendment Date February 28, 2010
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2007-2008 Homeless Education Data Quality
Assurance Process

• Bureau of Student Assistance Survey 5 Data
  Quality Control Procedures
• Resulted in Improved Data Collection
• (August 2008 September 2008)
• First to Last Data Run
• 59 increase in the number of homeless students
  reported to the FDOE
• 40 percent increase in the number of school
  districts reporting their number of homeless
  students

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For more information...

• on Homeless Education Data Questions
• Deepak Gajre
• Bureau of Student Assistance
• [phone] or Deepak.Gajre_at_fldoe.org

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Contact Information

• Lorraine Husum Allen, DirectorHomeless Education
  Program
• Florida Department of Education
• 325 West Gaines Street, 352Tallahassee, FL
  32399-0400
• Phone [phone]
• SUNCOM 205-0668Fax [phone]
• Lorraine.Allen_at_fldoe.org