Homeless Students Are Missing School. Does Having a Separate School for Them Help or Hurt? [edsurge.com]

Mathew Portell 12/14/2312:00 PM

By Daniel Mollenkamp, Photo: SK_Artist/Shutterstock, EdSurge, December 14, 2023

For homeless students, chronic absenteeism is dismayingly high.

The number of students who regularly miss school has risen since the pandemic, but for homeless students, it’s been especially bad. Even though federal law requires states to provide public education to homeless students, delivering on this has proven troublesome. And getting homeless students to show up to school has been an elusive goal for many districts.

Leaders of a school in San Diego — an area with one of the largest homeless populations in the country — think they have an answer. Monarch School, a public-private K-12 school, is an arrangement between the San Diego County Office of Education and a local nonprofit. It has around 300 students, all of them experiencing homelessness or at risk of becoming homeless.

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