Homeless Students Hit Hard By School Closures, Studies Find

Education Week (9/24, Sparks) reported, "Nationwide, the push to shutter low-performing or financially unsustainable schools is starting to conflict with the even sharper rise in homeless students, some research is beginning to suggest. The latest of those studies, released last week by the Institute for Children, Poverty and Homelessness in New York City, zeroes in on New York City" schools, finding that school "closings often disproportionately affected schools attended by homeless students and that those students, arguably among the system's most vulnerable, received little support for making the transition to a new school." Also, according to Education Week, "The report also found homeless students transferring from a school were at greater risk of ending up in another low-performing school."