As Student Homelessness Worsens, Educators Work to Keep Them in School
October 25, 2013 by twalker
Last year, the National Center for Homeless Education (NCHE), funded by the Department of Education, issued a report showing that the number of homeless students who attended public schools during the 2010-2011 school year had topped one million.The crisis has continued to worsen. According to the new NCHE report released this week, during the 2011-2012 school year, 1,168,354 homeless students attended schools across the country, a 10% increase over the previous year and a 24% increase overall since the 2009-2010 school year.
Lisa Phillips, the State Coordinator for Homeless Education in North Carolina, has first-hand knowledge of the growing number of homeless students.
“When I began as the state coordinator in May of 2009, we were identifying approximately 16,947 students