Bedford-Stuyvesant and northern Crown Heights’ School District 16 and Brownsville’s School District 23 both had a homeless student population of 15.2 percent in the 2014-15 academic year, a report from the Institute for Children, Poverty & Homelessness shows.…
Jennifer Erb-Downward, a principal policy analyst at the Institute for Children, Poverty and Homelessness, said the city’s single-year growth is ‘unprecedented.’…
Institute for Children, Poverty, and Homelessness President Ralph Nunez said the dramatic increase in the number of homeless kids is cause for alarm.…
Every time a student transfers to a new school, they’re set back academically by up to six months, according to a recent report by the Institute for Children, Poverty and Homelessness, and homeless students in New York City transfer to new schools about three times as often as children with stable housing.…
Traditional shelters are also a more visible reminder of homelessness – and how well any given administration is handling it, according to Ralph da Costa Nunez, president of the Institute for Children, Poverty and Homelessness.…
This August, the Institute for Children, Poverty, and Homelessness determined that ten per cent of students in the Department of Education’s District 23, which includes Ocean Hill, are living in shelters.…
In analyzing the federal government’s lengthy report, the New York-based ‘Institute for Children, Poverty and Homelessness’ concludes ‘definitive answers are nowhere to be found,’ raising serious questions about the report’s methodology and conclusions.…
More than 1 in 4 families with children in the New York City shelter system entered because of domestic violence. 1 in 4 high school students who reported being physically hurt on purpose by someone they were dating was homeless.…
The Institute for Children, Poverty and Homelessness published a statement on a HUD Family Options Study, which followed hundreds of homeless families in 12 cities across the country for three years.…
A whopping 86,694 homeless students are enrolled in city schools — a number that has steadily grown over the past few years, the Daily News has learned.…
School districts in Queens varied in terms of the numbers of students who experienced homelessness in the 2014-15 school year, according to a new report released by a nonprofit.…
Nearly 40 percent of homeless students missed at least a month of school during the 2014-15 school year, according to the Institute for Children, Poverty and Homelessness.…