Which service is described as being provided by the McKinney-Vento Act?

• A. Transportation to school only
• B. Free breakfast and lunch
• C. After-school tutoring
• D. Scholarship for college

Answer: (B)

The question focuses on what the McKinney-Vento Act is designed to protect for homeless students—their access to education by removing barriers. A key way it does this is by tying homeless students into the same federal supports that help all students learn, such as the school meal programs, so hunger doesn’t keep them from attending or performing well.

Free meals are the service described by the Act because ensuring access to breakfast or lunch helps remove a common barrier to school participation for homeless students. While transportation to the school of origin is indeed required under the Act, the statement “to school only” is too narrow to capture the broader range of supports the Act helps coordinate. After-school tutoring and college scholarships are not specific mandates of the McKinney-Vento Act, though schools may offer them through other programs.