Recent data from Leon County Schools shows increasing numbers of students experiencing homelessness. How this is playing out in one school and a look at the community effort helping meet these needs.
Nomad Pallek's personal struggles mirror a larger trend among students in the San Diego Community College District, where 44% face food insecurity and 23% experience homelessness.
For the past two months, home for Lori Menkedick and her family has been the Evergreen Inn, a Los-Angeles area motel just off Interstate-210. They’ve bounced between similar establishments east of downtown for almost three years. But room rates consume most of the $650 a week her husband earns from construction. The family depends on […]
In Houston ISD, a program intended to meet the basic needs of students is shifting focus from food access to truancy and dropout prevention. The changes come on the heels of a major reduction in the size of HISD’s Homeless Services Office, from 40 workers to 12. Even with a $12 million investment in the new Sunrise Center initiative, some community members worry that HISD is on the wrong path.