Author: Lee V. Gaines

Megan Mainzer, the McKinney-Vento liaison for Middletown Public Schools in Rhode Island, speaks with a young girl at a school food and clothing pantry that’s managed, in part, with federal grant money. ‎/Josephine Sittenfeld for NPR hide caption toggle caption ‎/Josephine Sittenfeld for NPR Megan Mainzer works with children and families experiencing homelessness at Middletown Public Schools in Rhode Island. Last year, the federal government sent $65,000 to her district to help support those students – funding that was made possible by the decades-old McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act, a federal law that includes legal protections and a grant program to…