Re "Homeless Students Flooding Tuckahoe" [Dec.
Homeless students are "extraordinarily driven, but these financial barriers are enormous.
The Young at Art Museum in Davie, Fla., has an afterschool arts program for homeless students.
Mr. Galatowitsch used a $250 donation to buy books for the homeless students.
Administrators find it difficult to evaluate homeless students for learning disabilities.
LMU has welfare and housing staff but few of the homeless students had approached them.
Regarding the article "U.S. schools struggle to cope with rise in homeless students" (Sept.
Some states are reporting a nearly 50percentt increase in homeless students over the last year.
Nationally, the number of homeless students at public schools reached an all-time high after the recession hit.
There are 2,953 homeless students attending Orange County Public Schools, up from 1,463 in 2008.
This academic year, for the first time, verifiably homeless students and emancipated minors get independent status without having to appeal.
