Megan Mainzer works with children and families experiencing homelessness at Middletown Public Schools in Rhode Island.
Last year, the federal government sent $65,000 to her district to help support those students—funding that was made possible by the decades-old McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act, a federal law that includes legal protections and a grant program to help schools cover the costs of educating students experiencing homelessness.
In Middletown, Mainzer says those federal dollars helped staff a high school food pantry, and helped pay for transportation, after-school care, internet hotspots, gas and groceries for families.
Read more at NPR.
