There's a federal law that helps homeless students get an education. It's administered by the U.S. Education Department, and schools worry there's no plan for the program if the department closes.

Nearly 8,000 students in Mississippi's public schools during one academic year were classified as homeless under a federal ...

Sign up for The Morning Report with all your must-read news for the day. For the first time in half a decade, the county’s annual homeless census showed a decrease ...

January 8, 2026 - It's time for John Fensterwald's annual predictions for what's in store for education in 2026. The number of students experiencing homelessness who were enrolled in California’s ...

Assembly Bill 673, authored by Assemblymember Corey Jackson, D-Moreno Valley, passed out of the Assembly Education Committee ...

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. In Kern County, the first rule in counting homeless students is not saying “homeless.” Instead, school staff use ...

The number of homeless students in Maryland has risen by 24% over six years thanks to soaring rents and improved identification of students facing housing instability, according to Maryland education ...