States have never found so many homeless students in public schools before. The next challenge will be finding ways to keep those students in school long enough to earn a diploma.
Nearly 1.36 million children—more than all the students in New York City—went to school in 2017 without knowing where they would sleep at night, finds a new report by the national campaign Education Leads Home, which looked at new national data as well as graduation rates for homeless students in 26 states. That's a jump of more than 100,000 students from 2016, making 2017 an all-time high since the group began tracking in 2007.
"Homelessness is not just not having housing. ... It goes above and beyond poverty," said Barbara Duffield, the executive director of SchoolHouse Connection, which co-wrote the report with three other groups, the America's Promise Alliance, Civic Enterprises, and the Institute for Children, Poverty, and Homelessness. "There's so much that goes into homelessness, in terms of trauma ... these students have multiple risk factors."
[For more on this story by Sarah D. Sparks, go to https://www.edweek.org/ew/arti...meless-students.html]
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