Homeless Students Are Missing School. Does Having a Separate School for Them Help or Hurt?
ED Surge
DECEMBER 14, 2023
For homeless students, chronic absenteeism is dismayingly high. The number of students who regularly miss school in general has risen since the pandemic, but for homeless students, it’s been especially bad. Even though federal law requires states to provide public education to homeless students, delivering on this has proven troublesome. And getting homeless students to show up to school has been an elusive goal for many districts.
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