Homelessness hits harder when you're young. For high school senior Morgan Keller, she said she became homeless after experiencing abuse by her father. "I had come home from school one day, and my dad ...

Megan Mainzer works with children and families experiencing homelessness at Middletown Public Schools in Rhode Island. Last year, the federal government sent $65,000 to her district to help support ...

Under the one-time disbursement of federal funds, school districts could have provided a range of services to students who are homeless — including transportation. States had until the end of ...

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Amber Williams has dedicated time each of the past five years to give back to the community. It started in her one-bedroom apartment during the height of the pandemic, when Williams raised money to ...

Alaska school districts risk losing access to up to several hundred thousand dollars in federal funding aimed at homeless students if they aren’t able to commit to spending it by the end of September.

As the number of unhoused families continues to climb, some school districts are using their parking lots to shelter homeless ...

Over 1.2 million students enrolled in public schools experienced homelessness in the 2021-22 school year, according to a study by the National Center for Homeless Education. The McKinney-Vento ...

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