The Learning Curve: County Sees Surge in Homeless Students Even As Funding Is in Question

The Learning Curve: County Sees Surge in Homeless Students Even As Funding is in Question

For the first time in half a decade, the county’s annual homeless census showed a decrease in the number of people staying in local shelters and living on the streets. Countywide, there was about a 7 percent decrease in homelessness. That elicited relief from leaders who’ve long grappled with a steady beat of bad news on the front.  Local education officials, on the other hand, were not treated to such good news. Over the past year, the number o…

Although the healthy growth of students is the focus of US education policy, in California, the most populous state in the United States, the number of homeless students under the age of 18 has continued to surge over the past three years, and their future is worrying. According to the website of EdSource, a non-profit independent news organization in California, the latest statistics jointly released by the California Department of Education an…