in the State regularly review and revise their 
policies and practices to remove barriers to the 
enrollment, attendance, retention, and success 
of homeless children and youths in schools and 
preschool programs funded by the State edu-
cational agency or local educational agencies 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 a staff person as the local edu-
cational agency liaison for homeless chil-
dren and youths, who shall have sufficient 
training, resources, and time to carry out 
the duties described in paragraph (6)(A), 
and who may also be a coordinator for 
other Federal programs. 
‘‘(iii) The State and local educational 
agencies will adopt policies and practices to 
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ensure that transportation is provided ex-
peditiously, 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, for as long as the student 
has the right to attend the school of origin 
as determined in paragraph (3)(A), in ac-
cordance with the following, 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, 
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 
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educational agency of origin and the 
local educational agency in which the 
child or youth is living shall share 
equally the cost and responsibility for 
providing transportation to and from 
the school of origin, unless they agree 
upon another method to apportion 
cost and responsibility, or the State 
educational agency has devised an-
other method to apportion cost and 
responsibility among local educational 
agencies. 
‘‘(iv) The State educational agency 
and local educational agencies will adopt 
policies and practices to ensure that home-
less children and youths have opportunities 
to meet the same challenging State student 
academic achievement standards to which 
other students are held and are able to 
participate fully in all classes and school 
activities, including extracurricular activi-
ties, athletic activities for which they meet 
skill level requirements, before and after 
school programs, summer school programs, 
field trips, classes, tests, and activities with 
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