Students Experiencing Homelessness in Pennsylvania: New Evidence of Under-Identification and Inequity

Autor/inn/en	Shaw-Amoah, Anna; Lapp, David
Institution	Research for Action
Titel	Students Experiencing Homelessness in Pennsylvania: New Evidence of Under-Identification and Inequity
Quelle	(2021), (15 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Quantitative Daten; Homeless People; Federal Legislation; Public Schools; Identification; Poverty; Elementary Secondary Education; School Districts; Charter Schools; At Risk Students; Enrollment; Rural Areas; COVID-19; Pandemics; Online Courses; Educational Technology; School Closing; Student Needs; Urban Areas; Suburbs; Place of Residence; Pennsylvania; Pennsylvania (Philadelphia); United States; Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Homeless person; Homeless persons; Obdachloser; Bundesrecht; Public school; Öffentliche Schule; Identifikation; Identifizierung; Armut; School district; Schulbezirk; Charter school; Charter-Schule; Einschulung; Rural area; Ländlicher Raum; Online course; Online-Kurs; Unterrichtsmedien; School closings; Schule; Schließung; Schließung (von Schulen); Urban area; Stadtregion; Einzugsbereich; Wohnort; USA
Abstract	As Research for Action (RFA) found in 2018 (see ED593694), Pennsylvania schools have a history of under-identifying students experiencing homelessness, denying likely hundreds of students the educational rights afforded by federal law each year. Now the state, along with the whole nation, is facing multiple crises as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, from healthcare to job and housing loss. The aftershocks of this pandemic are likely to bring more families to the tipping point of overcrowding, temporary housing, and homelessness. PA schools will need to support these growing numbers of students experiencing homelessness ("SEH") over the next few years. This brief provides some evidence of improvement in identification of SEH in PA since RFA's 2018 report. However, rates vary by school community and Pennsylvania overall ranks only 36th out of 50 states in identification of SEH per school-aged children in poverty. Data indicate that Philadelphia -- the city with the highest overall population of people experiencing homelessness -- is particularly under-identifying SEH, especially in its charter school sector. Meanwhile, in cyber charter schools across the state enrollment of SEH has increased dramatically over time. Finally, the brief concludes with a discussion of the growing rural student homelessness population in PA, a trend that brings to light the statewide nature of the student homelessness crisis. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01