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A Decrease in Homeless Students Identified At the Beginning of the School Year

Education Dive Nov 24, 2020
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Giving Compass' Take:

• At the beginning of this school year, SchoolHouse Connection, a nonprofit that conducted a survey, found a 28 percent decrease in identifying homeless students compared to fall 2019.

• Despite this drop, there are still up to 1.4 million homeless students remaining unidentified without school supports. How can donors contribute to efforts of supporting this population?

• Read about the struggles for homeless students amid the COVID-19 crisis. 


A national survey of 1,444 McKinney-Vento education liaisons in 49 states shows a 28% drop in the identification of homeless students compared to fall 2019, amounting to an estimated 420,000 fewer children identified at the start of the 2020-21 school year.

SchoolHouse Connection, the nonprofit organization that conducted the survey, said up to 1.4 million homeless students remain unidentified and without school supports.

In a separate 50-state survey — 39 of which responded — a majority said they didn’t direct funds from the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act for homeless students and have indicated they will not be tracking whether or how districts are using CARES funding to support this population.

The McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act requires districts to appoint a homeless education liaison and ensure homeless students have the same access to a free, appropriate public education as other learners, which includes identifying, enrolling and providing transportation for homeless students.

Michelle Swisher, a homeless liaison for Spotsylvania County Public Schools in Virginia, said it’s become more difficult to identify students during the pandemic because many schools remain in remote learning to some extent. Homeless students are usually identified when they need transportation to school, she said, and McKinney-Vento parents may be purposely opting to remain remote for this reason even with in-person classes on the table.

Read the full article about homeless students by Naaz Modan at Education Dive.

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Interested in learning more about Homeless and Housing? Other readers at Giving Compass found the following articles helpful for impact giving related to Homeless and Housing.

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    Longer Prison Sentences Do Not Deter Crime

    Giving Compass' Take: • Vox reports on a program from the Open Philanthropy Project that examined the length of prison sentences in relation to crime rates and found this: "[B]uilding and filling prisons is not making people safer." • What can those dedicated to criminal justice reform due with the data compiled by the study described in this piece? How can we reach out to give formerly incarcerated people more economic opportunities and reduce recidivism? • Here's more about how philanthropy can support impactful criminal justice reform. When the Open Philanthropy Project began a grant program for criminal justice reform, it asked itself a tricky question: Are we doing the right thing? The project’s organizers believed that pushing for lower prison sentences, particularly for minor offenses, would not lead to more crime. This was supported by a general understanding of the past few decades of experience and research in the US. But the organization, ever skeptical of even its own biases, decided to run the numbers itself. The analysis looked at the effects before, during, and after incarceration: essentially, deterrence, incapacitation, and aftereffects (whether and how someone changes behavior after incarceration). He focused on studies that leveraged experimental or quasi-experimental settings to look at the best possible evidence, covering 35 studies in all. There are essentially two sides to the aftereffects: On the positive, prison can cause someone to be less likely to re-offend — by giving people a bad experience that they do not want to go through again, by connecting them with job training or addiction treatment, and so on. On the negative, prison can lead to more criminality — by connecting inmates to social networks of people in gangs or other criminal activity, or by making it much harder to get a legal job due to a criminal record. Read the full article about how longer prison sentences do not reduce crime by German Lopez at Vox.com.


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