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Reykdal, Chris – Washington Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction, 2021
This paper provides information on how the McKinney-Vento Education of Homeless Children and Youth Assistance Act relates to student transportation in Washington State and describes transportation choices and requirements.
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Homeless People, Student Transportation, Students
Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education, US Department of Education, 2024
Career-connected learning is an educational strategy that combines high-quality academic instruction, skill-based learning, and real-world experiences to prepare students with the knowledge and skills that they need to pursue their career goals. Career-connected learning is especially important for an often-overlooked group of students including…
Descriptors: Youth, Mobility, Career and Technical Education, Foster Care
Patti Enbody – Washington Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction, 2024
The Washington Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI) annually submits a report outlining the method used in determining the coefficients for each site characteristic used to establish the transportation allocation for the following year. The Student Transportation Allocation Reporting System (STARS) will determine the 2024-25…
Descriptors: Student Transportation, Resource Allocation, School Districts, Expenditures
Espinoza, Daniel; Griffith, Michael; Burns, Dion; Shields, Patrick M. – Learning Policy Institute, 2023
Approximately 1.3 million public school students in the United States were identified as experiencing some form of homelessness in 2019-20. Due to their unstable living situations, students experiencing homelessness often have additional educational, social, emotional, and material needs compared to their stably housed peers. Housing instability…
Descriptors: Homeless People, At Risk Students, Student Needs, Barriers
Washington Student Achievement Council, 2023
Basic needs insecurity -- including housing and food insecurity, as well as lack of access to healthcare, childcare, transportation, and other basic needs -- is a critical barrier that can undermine persistence and completion rates for postsecondary students. The gaps in covering critical costs such as housing and food are pervasive among students…
Descriptors: Homeless People, Student Needs, College Students, Program Effectiveness
Bryant, Matt; Magisos, Ami – Washington Student Achievement Council, 2023
Washington has made some strides in recent years toward increasing awareness and state support of students' basic needs but has lacked state and regional information to drive larger-scale policies, programs, and investments to address the attainment barriers associated with basic needs insecurity. State and regional data on unmet basic needs can…
Descriptors: Student Needs, Needs Assessment, Student Surveys, Child Care
Levin, Stephanie; Espinoza, Daniel; Griffith, Michael – Learning Policy Institute, 2023
This brief summarizes a study of five school districts that have been recognized for their efforts to provide high-quality services to students experiencing homelessness. The districts worked hard to identify students experiencing homelessness and supplemented modest federal funds with private funding, district funding, community-based resources,…
Descriptors: School Districts, Homeless People, Educational Quality, Federal Aid
Goldrick-Rab, Sara; Baker-Smith, Christine; Clark, Kallie; Dahl, Sonja; Brescia, Stephanie; Williams, Tiffani – Hope Center for College, Community, and Justice, 2021
Affording living expenses presents a major barrier to degree completion for many community college students. Food, affordable housing, transportation, and childcare are central conditions for learning. Yet with stagnant incomes, rising tuition and living costs, and insufficient support from financial aid and the social safety net, approximately…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Community College Students, College Housing, Student Costs
Council of Chief State School Officers, 2019
American public education policy and practice has long focused on what can be done to meet the academic needs of all students during the school day. Today, more families and students are facing challenges outside of school that affect student academic performance in classrooms. Challenges such as homelessness, food security, mental health and…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Student Needs, Hunger, Wellness
Melinda Dyer – Washington Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction, 2024
The federal McKinney-Vento Act broadly defines homelessness in an effort to provide protections and supports for students living in a variety of unstable housing situations. This ensures school stability and continued enrollment at a time when a student's nighttime residence may be constantly changing. In Washington, the number of children and…
Descriptors: Homeless People, At Risk Students, School Districts, Enrollment
Levin, Stephanie; Espinoza, Daniel; Griffith, Michael – Learning Policy Institute, 2022
Approximately 1.3 million K-12 public school students across the United States were identified as experiencing homelessness in 2019-20. In all cases, the stress, instability, trauma, and school mobility created by homelessness increase risks to physical, social, and emotional health and to educational engagement and achievement. Districts play an…
Descriptors: Homeless People, Kindergarten, Elementary Secondary Education, At Risk Students
Melinda Dyer – Washington Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction, 2023
The federal McKinney-Vento Act defines homelessness broadly in an effort to provide protections and supports for students living in a variety of unstable housing situations. This ensures school stability and continued enrollment at a time when a student's nighttime residence may be constantly changing. In Washington, the number of children and…
Descriptors: Homeless People, At Risk Students, School Districts, Enrollment
Joseph, AnnRené – International Dialogues on Education: Past and Present, 2019
That the arts enhance academic achievement has been a claim of educators for the past century. This experimental study examined whether and to what extent the use of creative dramatics interventions increased the vocabulary achievement of fourth grade students in a language arts classroom. The 20-day study was conducted across five weeks of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Drama, Vocabulary Development, Teaching Methods
Samuels, G. M.; Cerven, C.; Curry, S.; Robinson, S. R.; Patel, S. – Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago, 2019
This Research-to-Impact brief is the sixth in a series by Chapin Hall's Voices of Youth Count on understanding and addressing youth homelessness. This brief draws exclusively on the in-depth interview (IDI) component from Voices of Youth Count. The 215 young people that were interviewed across five diverse U.S. counties shared stories of…
Descriptors: Youth, Homeless People, Individual Needs, Family Needs
Ferren, Megan – Center for American Progress, 2021
When schools closed their doors in March 2020 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, there was a scramble to adjust to remote learning. Over the summer and into the fall, the debate over reopening took center stage, as school leaders struggled to answer how and when it would be safe to return to the classroom. The Center for American Progress (CAP)…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing, Distance Education