Studies continue to show that “where you live and where children grow up matters”. It seems that geography matters more to children in poor or very-low income families. The philosophy that living in a more affluent area influences the level of income a person has, and this appears to be widely similar across metropolitan areas in the United States.…
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Education Dive: New York’s homeless pulled between shelter and school
… a report from the Institute for Children, Poverty & Homelessness found the stability of staying in one shelter for all four years of high school can lead to graduation rates nearly on par with low-income students in regular housing.…
The Atlantic: Why Homeless Kids Can’t Get to School
Another recent report, by the New York City-based Institute for Children, Poverty & Homelessness (ICPH), found that more than 127,000 New York City public-school students—or one in eight—have been homeless at some point in the last five school years.…
Think Progress: The Homeless Crisis in New York City’s Schools
More than 100,000 New York City students are homeless this academic year, according to an analysis by the Institute for Children, Poverty & Homelessness (ICPH). That’s an increase of 22 percent over the year before — a jump that is ‘unprecedented,’ Jennifer Erb-Downward, principal policy analyst at ICPH, told ThinkProgress.…
DNAinfo: Brooklyn’s Homeless Crisis Could Lead to Shake-Up of Education Supervisors
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.…
The 74: NYC’s Homeless Student Population Reaches a New ‘Disturbing’ High: 105,445, or 1 in 10
Jennifer Erb-Downward, a principal policy analyst at the Institute for Children, Poverty and Homelessness, said the city’s single-year growth is ‘unprecedented.’…
New York Daily News: Homelessness Among NYC Schoolkids Surges As Population Tops 100,000
Institute for Children, Poverty, and Homelessness President Ralph Nunez said the dramatic increase in the number of homeless kids is cause for alarm.…
The 74: The Homeless Student Population Is Exploding. Will New Focus on Performance Save Them?
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.…
City & State: Shifting To Traditional Homeless Shelters, De Blasio Faces Backlash From Locals
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.…
The New Yorker: Is AirBnB Good for the Black Middle Class?
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.…
Townhall: Avowed Socialist Takes Charge of U.S. Public Housing Policy
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.…
Crosscut: Mayor’s Homeless Advisors Are Misguided
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.…