State’s rising homeless student population struggles academically
Joshua Emerson Smith/California WatchMakayla Vigil (left), shown with her family, is living in a homeless shelter for women and children.
This fall, Makayla Vigil will be a sophomore at Pleasant Valley High School in Chico. For most of her school career, she made the honor roll. But last semester, after her family lost their apartment, she earned C’s and D’s.
“My grades did suffer a lot from just not caring,” said Vigil, 16. “Before, when I had good grades, I was thinking, 'I