Adopted: June 2007
Revised: December 2025
Download 501.8.3.4P - Dispute Resolution Process
If you choose to dispute a decision regarding eligibility for enrollment, school selection, transportation, and/or other McKinney-Vento services, you are entitled to an appeal. An appeal may be initiated by contacting the School District’s McKinney-Vento Liaison and explaining the basis for the appeal in writing or by telephone. The School District’s McKinney-Vento Liaison is the person designated by the School District to oversee the district staff person for students experiencing homelessness. The McKinney-Vento Liaison must ensure the District carries out the provisions of the law. Contact information for the District’s McKinney-Vento Liaison is as follows:
The School District’s McKinney-Vento Liaison will review the decision with the Superintendent or Superintendent’s Designee within five business days and determine whether the decision should be changed in any way. You may provide the McKinney-Vento Liaison with written or oral information to support your position. The School District’s decision will be provided to you in writing by the end of the five-day period. The decision is final unless an appeal is initiated to the State of Minnesota within two (2) school days of the decision.
If you are dissatisfied with the School District’s decision, you are entitled to an appeal under the State of Minnesota’s dispute resolution process. You may appeal to the state by contacting the Minnesota Department of Education’s State Homeless Education Coordinator or by asking the above-named McKinney-Vento Liaison to notify the State Coordinator of the dispute. The State Coordinator will take action to resolve the dispute in accordance with the State’s dispute resolution procedures.
Contact information for the State Homeless Education Coordinator as follows: MDE.HomelessEd@state.mn.us, or by US mail addressed to: State Homeless Education Coordinator, Student Access and Opportunity Division, MDE, 400 NE Stinson Blvd., Minneapolis, MN 55413.
During the dispute resolution process, your child is entitled to continue attending or to enroll immediately in the school in which you seek enrollment pending resolution of the dispute. Enrollment includes participation in all school services and activities for which your child is otherwise eligible.