Nevada District Struggles To Provide Services To Homeless Students

The Reno (NV) Gazette-Journal (12/8, Martinez) reports that some 1,800 students in Washoe County, Nevada, are considered homeless by the local district, adding that local administrators are struggling with rising numbers of "Children in Transition," who are "homeless - living in shelters, motels, cars, parks or doubled-up with family or friends because of economic hardship. With nearly one in two students in Washoe County's schools coming from low-income families, a steadily emerging subpopulation of the district's more than 62,000 students is homeless, having reached a high of more than 1,900 in the 2007-08 school year." The piece describes the efforts of the district to keep homeless children in school.