Ranks of homeless students are rising

"In tough times, the ranks of homeless students are rising"
Boston Globe, Evelyn Nieves, Dec.21, 2008

"Some district's report increases up to 100 percent"

This article talks about the national crisis of homeless families and children:

"As foreclosures and layoffs force families out of their homes, school districts across the nation are struggling to deal with a dramatic increase in the number of homeless children.Some districts are seeing increases of 50 to 1oo percent or more........Educators say students without a stable home are at greater risk of becoming truants, developing behavioral problems and failing school...An estimated 2 million children (nationally) are at risk of homelessness because of the foreclosure crisis and economic downturn...Alex Rodriguez, 32, and Rosa Estevez, 26, both lost their jobs---he at a car-parts store, she at an insurance office---when their companies left San Francisco. Within 12 months, the and their 12-year-old son were homeless. They wound up at the San Rafael House, a family shelter..."You've got dramatic foreclosures plus a million job losses," said Philip Mangano, director of the US Interagency Council on Homelessness, the administration's lead organization for addressing homeless issues. "We would be naive to believe that this wouldn't have an effect on families already struggling, and it has."

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