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- Title
A Question of Priorities: A Critical Investigation of the McKinney-Vento Act.
- Authors
Cunningham, Keith Alan
- Abstract
This critical policy ethnography analyzes the McKinney-Vento Act and how the policy is put into practice at a school district within Central Texas. Data comes from conversations with educators occupying key roles within the McKinney-Vento operational bureaucracy at the school district and the researcher's experience as an educator and volunteer at a homeless shelter. Analysis was informed by an ethic of care framework and a historiography was created to chronicle the policy's genealogy, intent, and guiding values. The findings are presented in a deliberate effort to put a human face to some of those the policy impacts. Major findings and recommendations include a need for increased awareness and compliance, monitoring of the policy, as well as an investment of additional resources to adequately respond to McKinney-Vento issues within the district.
- Subjects
TEXAS; UNITED States. McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act; EDUCATION policy; UNITED States education system; SCHOOL districts; HOMELESS students; HOMELESS shelters; EDUCATORS
- Publication
Critical Questions in Education, 2014, Vol 5, Issue 3, p218
- ISSN
2327-3607
- Publication type
Article