Sign up for The Morning Report with all your must-read news for the day. For the first time in half a decade, the county’s annual homeless census showed a decrease ...
Over 1.2 million students enrolled in public schools experienced homelessness in the 2021-22 school year, according to a study by the National Center for Homeless Education. The McKinney-Vento ...
Megan Mainzer, the McKinney-Vento liaison for Middletown Public Schools in Rhode Island, speaks with a young girl at the Island Oasis, a food and clothing pantry that's managed, in part, with federal ...
This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. In Kern County, the first rule in counting homeless students is not saying “homeless.” Instead, school staff use ...
The number of homeless students in Mississippi public schools increased to 7,694 in the 2023-2024 school year. Homelessness for students is federally defined to include those living in hotels, motels, ...
PITTSBURGH — Community members and students stood outside the City-County building in Pittsburgh to bring awareness to the growing number of homeless kids in Allegheny County. Members of the Homeless ...
The number of homeless students in Maryland has risen by 24% over six years thanks to soaring rents and improved identification of students facing housing instability, according to Maryland education ...
Boxes of crayons were ready for backpacks. (Photo via San Diego County Office of Education 2017) Kids face many hardships — having access to school supplies should not be one of them. SDCCU ‘Stuff the ...
The number of students experiencing homelessness who were enrolled in California’s TK-12 public schools has jumped over 9% for yet another year, even as overall enrollment rates continue on a downward ...
Ninth grader Dayana estimates she's moved about six times in the last six years. She said her family hasn't had a fixed place to live since they moved to southern Rhode Island from Guatemala in 2019.