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Rennie Center for Education Research & Policy, 2024
This brief seeks to improve staff effectiveness while maximizing and streamlining support for students and families experiencing homelessness, ensuring they receive the assistance they need and deserve. The guidance is intended for, but not limited to, Massachusetts policymakers and Boston Public Schools (BPS) administrators, offering key insights…
Descriptors: Housing, Homeless People, Best Practices, Trauma Informed Approach
Dragoo, Kyrie E.; James, Nathan; Duff, Johnathan H.; Reese, Shawn; Hegji, Alexandra – Congressional Research Service, 2022
In the United States, more than 70 million students are enrolled in public elementary and secondary (K-12) schools or degree-granting postsecondary institutions. School and campus safety and security for these students encompasses many issues, including violence prevention and response, school climate, and the physical and mental health of the…
Descriptors: School Safety, School Security, Federal Aid, Grants
Losen, Daniel J.; Martinez, Paul; Shin, Grace Hae Rim – Civil Rights Project - Proyecto Derechos Civiles, 2021
Among the most critical pre-pandemic inequities that have not received sufficient attention is the fact that many districts are not meeting their legal and moral obligation to educate students with disabilities, which must include providing needed mental health services, behavioral supports and educationally sound interventions by well qualified…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Equal Education, Access to Education, COVID-19
Losen, Daniel J.; Martinez, Paul; Shin, Grace Hae Rim – Civil Rights Project - Proyecto Derechos Civiles, 2021
Among the most critical pre-pandemic inequities that have not received sufficient attention is the fact that many districts are not meeting their legal and moral obligation to educate students with disabilities, which must include providing needed mental health services, behavioral supports and educationally sound interventions by well qualified…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Equal Education, Access to Education, COVID-19
American Youth Policy Forum, 2015
Each young person must navigate his/her own pathway into and through postsecondary education and the workforce to long-term success personalized to his/her own unique needs and desires. The pathway to long-term success is often articulated as a straight road through K-12 education into postsecondary education (either academic or technical…
Descriptors: Youth Programs, Barriers, Access to Education, Stakeholders
Children Now, 2021
"The 2021 Pro-Kid Policy Agenda for California" is the comprehensive state-level roadmap to ensure that all children have the necessary supports to reach their full potential. California has an obligation to end systemic injustices that create barriers to kids of color, as well as kids living in poverty and undocumented kids, from…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Child Development, Child Health, Minority Group Children
Colorado Children's Campaign, 2014
"Kids Count in Colorado!" is an annual publication of the Colorado Children's Campaign, which provides the best available state- and county-level data to measure and track the education, health and general well-being of the state's children. "Kids Count in Colorado!" informs policy debates and community discussions, serving as…
Descriptors: Child Health, Well Being, Academic Achievement, Holistic Approach
Moore, Jan – National Center for Homeless Education, 2005
This review, compiled by the National Center for Homeless Education (NCHE), is based on literature published between 1995 and 2005 on issues concerning unaccompanied youth experiencing homelessness. It provides an overview of the challenges these young people face and includes research about why they leave their homes, how they live after leaving,…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Homeless People, Intervention, Public Policy
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on the Judiciary. – 1993
This document presents witness testimonies and prepared statements from a Senate hearing held in Atlanta, Georgia to examine the problem of crime among youth and to discuss the reauthorization of the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974. In his opening statement, Senator Fowler notes that the reauthorization puts greater…
Descriptors: Adolescents, At Risk Persons, Child Abuse, Child Neglect