Overview
Educational support for Students in Temporary Living Situations (STLS) offers assistance to students in pre-kindergarden-12th grade and their families who are experiencing homelessness. The STLS program is dedicated to ensuring that students in temporary living situations have equal access to the same free and appropriate educational opportunities as students who are permanently housed. This commitment to the educational rights of children and youth in temporary living situations applies to all the services, programs and activities provided or made available by CPS.
The program serves all students who are in temporary living situations. Students are eligible for the STLS program if they live in: transitional, emergency, or domestic violence shelters; mobile home parks; campgrounds, cars, abandoned buildings, the outdoors, or other spaces not ordinarily used as a regular sleeping accommodation. Students who are living with family or friends due to economic hardship, also referred to as "doubled-up", are eligible for the STLS program. Students who have runaway, who have been put out of their home by their parent/guardian, or who are not accompanied by a parent or legal guardian are served by STLS. Refugee and migrant students are served by the STLS program.
Goals
The goal of the STLS program is to protect the educational rights of students in temporary living situations and to provide services to students and their families.
Program benefits
- Immediate school enrollment. A school must immediately enroll students even if they lack health, immunization or school records, proof of guardianship, or proof of residency.
- Remain enrolled in his/her selected school for as long as he/she remains in a temporary living situation or, if the student becomes permanently housed, until the end of the academic year.
- A student in a temporary living situation attending his/her school of origin has the right to transportation to go to and from the school of origin as long as she or he is in a temporary living situation or, if the student becomes permanently housed, until the end of the academic year. CPS staff shall inform parents/guardians or youth of transportation services to and from school and school-related activities.
- Waiver of school-related fees
Resources
Here are a few additional resources for students experiencing homelessness.
Student Enrollment Forms: 
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