A Guide for SMP Schools
- A Guide for St. Mary Parish Public Schools
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Policies
- Asbestos Hazard
- Athletic/Cheerleader/Dance Team Drug Testing
- Child Nutrition Program
- Counseling Services
- Education of Dyslexic Students
- Foreign Exchange Students
- Grading System and Honor Roll
- Health Services
- Homeless Children & Youth Education Program
- In-School Suspension Program
- Internet and Network Use
- Migrant Education
- Notice of Non-Discrimination
- Parental/Family Engagement
- Safe and Drug-Free Schools
- School Bus Conduct Policy
- School Choice
- SMP Alternative Program
- SMP Virtual Learning Program
- Special Education Services
- Student Insurance
- Student Records
- Teacher Bill of Rights
- Title I: Every Student Succeeds Act
- Title III EL Program
- Title II
- Title IV
- Title IX
- Vocational Assessment
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Student Code of Conduct
- Attendance
- Bullying, Harassment, Intimidation, and Threats
- Bus Transportation Guidelines
- Cellular Phone Use
- Corporal Punishment Guidelines
- Dating Violence
- Discipline: Disciplinary Action for Students with Disabilities
- Discipline: Expulsion
- Discipline: Reporting Incidents Involving Seclusion or Physical Restraining
- Discipline: Suspension
- Discipline: Virtual Instruction
- Driving is a Privilege
- Felony
- Fighting
- Grooming
- Hazing
- Offensive Student Conduct at End of Year
- Respect Statute
- Smoking: Tobacco and Vaping
- Student Adjustment Centers (After-School Detention)
- Student Dress Code
- Student Searches
- Substance Abuse Policy & Procedures
- Tardiness
- Technology and Computers
- Textbooks
- Weapons
- Zero Tolerance Policy
- High School Courses and Graduation Requirements
- Frequently Asked Questions
- Report Card Schedule
- Parent Bill of Rights
- St. Mary Parish Schools
- Policies
- Homeless Children & Youth Education Program
Homeless Children & Youth Education Program
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The Homeless Children & Youth Education Program of the St. Mary Parish School System carries out federally mandated policies to ensure that homeless children and youth have access to a free, appropriate public education on the same basis as children and youth with established residences. Laws, regulations, practices or policies should not act as barriers to the enrollment, attendance of school, or success of homeless students.
The McKinney-Vento Act protects the educational rights of children and youth in the following homeless situations (Title IX, Part A, of Every Student Succeeds Act) (Effective October 1, 2016):
- Children living in shelters, including domestic violence shelters.
- Children living in hotels or motels or weekly-rate apartments.
- Children living in substandard conditions – not fit for human habitation (i.e. no electricity, no heat, no running water, no windows or doors, holes in the roof or floor, no way to cook or store food.)
- Abandoned, runaway, throwaway children and youth (Unaccompanied Youth).
- Two or more families living together in crowded or undesirable living conditions (doubling or tripling up because they have no place of their own to live where they can safely and healthfully meet their basic needs in privacy and with dignity).
The Rights of Homeless Students
Federal Law: McKinney-Vento Act (State Law: LA R.S. 17.238/Public Law 107-110)
The law gives children and youth in homeless situations the right to:
- Remain enrolled despite changes in residence.
- Obtain immediate access to school enrollment without proof of residency, immunization or school records. Parents must complete the St. Mary Parish McKinney-Vento Assurance Enrollment Dispute Resolution Policy, which gives them 5 (five) school days to submit required school enrollment documentation, i.e. physical address, academic records from last school attended, immunization records and birth certificate.
- Transportation to and from school.
- Enroll in pre-school programs.
- Any and all school services as needed.
Reviewed 06/14/2022
Bridget Guillot - Children living in shelters, including domestic violence shelters.