More than 1 million school-age children are homeless in the United States, according to the Department of Education. Experts say that number will only grow as pandemic-era emergency funds continue ...

School districts nationwide underestimate the number of homeless students they serve, cutting children off from assistance meant to help. An award-winning Center for Public Integrity investigation ...

School-based homeless liaisons in Boston Public Schools, for example, support families with school-age children by linking them with housing services through the Homeless Education Research Network.

The size of Florida’s population of homeless families with school-aged children is tens of thousands greater than that of HUD-counted groups, such as seniors, veterans and people with mental ...

Reading Time: 3 minutes When is a student considered homeless? The definition of homelessness among K-12 students is laid out in the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act, a federal law that details ...

The three oldest are among the 23,300 homeless children attending Colorado schools, and that’s not counting homeless babies and preschoolers, or the children who move from town to town with their ...

Councils are exposing homeless children to serious health and safeguarding risks by housing them in unsuitable temporary accommodation, an inquiry by MPs has found. MPs said a "crisis in temporary ...

Public schools in Massachusetts reported nearly 31,000 homeless students during the 2023-2024 school year, 3,000 of whom were “newly arrived” and residing in the shelter system.. The state was ...

Imagine you are always on the move. Roughly 1.5 million children experience homelessness each year. The obstacles of a stress dominated existence all but shut down the capacity to think.

A woman sued Gaston County Schools alleging that the school district illegally removed her children from their school after the family became homeless. The lawsuit was filed Jan. 26 by a woman who ...

Two children, ages 2 and 9, froze to death in a parking garage, highlighting the struggles of homeless families. Over 35,000 students in Michigan were identified as experiencing homelessness ...

At least 56,000 primary school children in England will spend Christmas homeless, according to new figures that show that one in nine pupils in some London primary schools don’t have a place to ...