BOSTON – Governor Healey’s office announced $1.7 million in federal McKinney-Vento Homeless Education grants to 47 public school districts across Massachusetts, including seven in Worcester County.
The funding supports over 20,000 students who experience homelessness at some point during the school year.
The funding supports three areas:
- Support services and family engagement to address the ongoing needs of homeless students and families and to engage with families to remove barriers for student attendance.
- Regional homeless education liaisons to support a network of experienced liaisons who provide technical assistance and training in collaboration with the state coordinator for homeless education.
- Homeless Migrant Student Support to collaborate with the Massachusetts Migrant Education Program, which serves children of migratory agricultural workers.
The grants announced range from $10,000 to $125,000. The amount depends on the grant priorities the applicant applied for and the number of enrolled homeless students.
The recipients in Worcester County:
- Worcester Public Schools – $60,000
- Auburn Public Schools – $20,000
- Fitchburg Public Schools – $30,000
- Leicester Public Schools – $20,000
- Leominster Public Schools – $20,000
- Milford Public Schools – $30,000
- Oxford Public Schools – $20,000
Recipients outside Worcester County:
- Acton-Boxborough Public Schools – $20,000
- Athol-Royalston Regional School District – $20,000
- Attleboro Public Schools – $20,000
- Barnstable Public Schools – $40,000
- Beverly Public Schools – $20,000
- Boston Public Schools – $80,000
- Bridgewater-Raynham Regional School District – $38,950
- Brockton Public Schools – $50,000
- Cambridge Public Schools – $30,000
- Cape Cod Collaborative (Osterville) – $25,000
- Chicopee Public Schools – $25,000
- Concord Public Schools – $20,000
- Dracut Public Schools – $20,000
- Everett Public Schools – $30,000
- Fall River Public Schools – $50,000
- Framingham Public Schools – $65,000
- Gloucester Public Schools – $75,000
- Haverhill Public Schools – $30,000
- Holyoke Public Schools – $60,000
- King Phillip Regional School District (Norfolk) – $20,000
- Lawrence Public Schools – $30,000
- Lowell Public Schools – $85,000
- Lynn Public Schools – $85,000
- Map Academy Charter (Plymouth) – $15,000
- Marlborough Public Schools – $50,000
- Marshfield Public Schools – $10,000
- New Bedford Public Schools – $125,000
- Norfolk Public Schools – $20,000
- North Adams Public Schools – $20,000
- Norwood Public Schools – $40,000
- Peabody Public Schools – $20,000
- Plainville Public Schools – $40,000
- Quincy Public Schools – $20,000
- Revere Public Schools – $30,000
- Salem Public Schools – $30,000
- Springfield Public Schools – $50,000
- Tantasqua Regional School District (Sturbridge) – $20,000
- Triton Public Schools (Byfield) – $20,000
- Weymouth Public Schools – $20,000
- Woburn Public Schools – $20,000
