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Educational Rights of Children Affected by Homelessness and/or Domestic Violence

In the United States, over 1.3 million women annually experience violence by a current or former partner. Each year in Massachusetts, 5.5 per cent of women between the ages of eighteen and fifty-nine experience domestic violence and an estimated 43,000 children are named on restraining orders, suggesting that they have been exposed to violence between family members.

This manual is intended to help you, as an advocate, understand and enforce educationrelated rights so that homeless children and children who have experienced domestic

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