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Survey of School Districts Shows Dramatic Increase in the Number of Homeless Students (National Association for the Education of Homeless Children and Youth and First Focus, December 2008)

About 20% of school districts participating in a voluntary survey identified as many homeless students in the beginning of the 2008/2009 school year as they had seen over the course of the entire previous year.

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About 20% of school districts participating in a voluntary survey identified as many  homeless students in the beginning of the 2008/2009 school year as they had seen over the course of the entire previous year.

 

http://www.firstfocus.net/Download/TheEconomicCrisisHitsHome.pdf