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‘‘(ii) residency requirements; 
‘‘(iii) lack of birth certificates, school 
records, or other documentation; 
‘‘(iv) guardianship issues; or 
‘‘(v) uniform or dress code require-
ments. 
‘‘(I) A demonstration that the State edu-
cational agency and local educational agencies 
in the State have developed, and shall review 
and revise, policies to remove barriers to the 
identification, enrollment, and retention of 
homeless children and youths in schools in the 
State. 
‘‘(J) Assurances that the following will be 
carried out: 
‘‘(i) The State educational agency and 
local educational agencies in the State will 
adopt policies and practices to ensure that 
homeless children and youths are not stig-
matized or segregated on the basis of their 
status as homeless. 
‘‘(ii) Local educational agencies will 
designate an appropriate staff person, who 
may also be a coordinator for other Fed-
eral programs, as a local educational agen-
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cy liaison for homeless children and 
youths, to carry out the duties described in 
paragraph (6)(A). 
‘‘(iii) The State and its local edu-
cational agencies will adopt policies and 
practices to ensure that transportation is 
provided, at the request of the parent or 
guardian (or in the case of an unaccom-
panied youth, the liaison), to and from the 
school of origin, as determined in para-
graph (3)(A), in accordance with the fol-
lowing, as applicable: 
‘‘(I) If the child or youth con-
tinues to live in the area served by the 
local educational agency in which the 
school of origin is located, the child’s 
or youth’s transportation to and from 
the school of origin shall be provided 
or arranged by the local educational 
agency in which the school of origin is 
located. 
‘‘(II) If the child’s or youth’s liv-
ing arrangements in the area served 
by the local educational agency of ori-
gin terminate and the child or youth, 
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though continuing his or her edu-
cation in the school of origin, begins 
living in an area served by another 
local educational agency, the local 
educational agency of origin and the 
local educational agency in which the 
child or youth is living shall agree 
upon a method to apportion the re-
sponsibility and costs for providing 
the child with transportation to and 
from the school of origin. If the local 
educational agencies are unable to 
agree upon such method, the responsi-
bility and costs for transportation 
shall be shared equally. 
‘‘(2) COMPLIANCE.— 
‘‘(A) IN
GENERAL.—Each plan adopted 
under this subsection shall also describe how 
the State will ensure that local educational 
agencies in the State will comply with the re-
quirements of paragraphs (3) through (7). 
‘‘(B) COORDINATION.—Such plan shall in-
dicate what technical assistance the State will 
furnish to local educational agencies and how 
compliance efforts will be coordinated with the 
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local educational agency liaisons designated 
under paragraph (1)(J)(ii). 
‘‘(3) LOCAL EDUCATIONAL AGENCY REQUIRE-
MENTS.— 
‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—The local educational 
agency serving each child or youth to be as-
sisted under this subtitle shall, according to the 
child’s or youth’s best interest— 
‘‘(i) continue the child’s or youth’s 
education in the school of origin for the 
duration of homelessness— 
‘‘(I) in any case in which a fam-
ily becomes homeless between aca-
demic years or during an academic 
year; or 
‘‘(II) for the remainder of the 
academic year, if the child or youth 
becomes permanently housed during 
an academic year; or 
‘‘(ii) enroll the child or youth in any 
public school that nonhomeless students 
who live in the attendance area in which 
the child or youth is actually living are eli-
gible to attend. 
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‘‘(B) SCHOOL STABILITY.—In determining 
the best interest of the child or youth under 
subparagraph (A), the local educational agency 
shall— 
‘‘(i) presume that keeping the child or 
youth in the school of origin is in the child 
or youth’s best interest, except when doing 
so is contrary to the wishes of the child’s 
or youth’s parent or guardian, or the unac-
companied youth; 
‘‘(ii) consider student-centered factors 
related to the child’s or youth’s best inter-
est, including factors related to the impact 
of mobility on achievement, education, 
health, and safety of homeless children and 
youth, giving priority to the wishes of the 
homeless child’s or youth’s parent of 
guardian or the unaccompanied youth in-
volved; 
‘‘(iii) if, after conducting the best in-
terest determination based on consider-
ation of the presumption in clause (i) and 
the student-centered factors in clause (ii), 
the local educational agency determines 
that it is not in the child’s or youth’s best 
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interest to attend the school of origin or 
the school requested by the parent, guard-
ian, or unaccompanied youth, provide the 
child’s or youth’s parent or guardian or 
the unaccompanied youth with a written 
explanation of the reasons for its deter-
mination, in a manner and form under-
standable to such parent, guardian, or un-
accompanied youth, including information 
regarding the right to appeal under sub-
paragraph (E); and 
‘‘(iv) in the case of an unaccompanied 
youth, ensure that the homeless liaison 
designated under paragraph (1)(J)(ii) as-
sists in placement or enrollment decisions 
under this subparagraph, gives priority to 
the views of such unaccompanied youth, 
and provides notice to such youth of the 
right to appeal under subparagraph (E). 
‘‘(C) ENROLLMENT.— 
‘‘(i) IN
GENERAL.—The school se-
lected in accordance with this paragraph 
shall immediately enroll the homeless child 
or youth, even if the child or youth— 
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