; (2) ensure that homeless populations proposed to be served by the applicant, and proposed program components or housing or service models, are not awarded different priority, points, or weight; and (3) ensure that scoring is based primarily on the extent to which the applicant demonstrates that the project and program components— (A) would meet the priorities identified in the plan submitted under section 427(b)(1)(B); and (B) are cost-effective in meeting the overall goals and objectives identified in that plan. ; (6) in section 424(d) ( 42 U.S.C. 11384(d) ), by striking paragraph (5); (7) in section 425(c) ( 42 U.S.C. 11385(c) ), by striking and (G) providing and inserting (G) providing transportation to employment, early care and education programs, career and technical education programs, and health and mental health care services, and (H) providing ; (8) in section 426(b) ( 42 U.S.C. 11386(b) )— (A) in paragraph (4), by amending subparagraph (D) to read as follows: (D) in the case of programs providing housing or services to families or youth, they will designate a staff person to be responsible for ensuring that children and youth being served in the program are— (i) enrolled in school and connected to appropriate services in the community, including Head Start, part C of the Individuals with Disabilities Act, programs authorized under the Child Care and Development Block Grant Act of 1990, career and technical education, and services provided by local educational agency liaisons designated under subtitle B of title VII of this Act; and (ii) in the case of an unaccompanied youth, as defined in section 725, informed of their status as an independent student under section 480 of the Higher Education Act of 1965 ( 20 U.S.C. 1087vv ) and receive verification of such status for purposes of the Free Application for Federal Student Aid described in section 483 of such Act ( 20 U.S.C. 1090 ); and