Federal data released Jan. 29 shows an all-time high of 1.5 million public school students experiencing homelessness during the 2017-18 school year, a 15 percent increase over a three-year span.
Commissioned at the request of the U.S. Department of Education, the latest report from the National Center for Homeless Education provides a summary of data collected by local and state education agencies from public-school districts in all 50 states during the school years of 2015-16, 2016-17, and 2017-18.
