The Kern County Superintendent of Schools’ McKinney-Vento Homeless Education Program announced Monday it's ramping up support to Kern County schools to identify and connect schools with families struggling with housing, especially as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a news release.

The McKinney-Vento Act is a federal law ensuring immediate enrollment, educational stability and social supports in any public school to homeless students and unaccompanied youth living in emergency shelters, motels, cars and campgrounds or who are living with other families due to loss of housing or economic hardship.