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A school created a homeless shelter in the gym and it paid off in the classroom

The Hechinger Report

A few months earlier, she’d heard about a family shelter inside an elementary school gym. They are more likely to attend schools with concentrated poverty, and they score significantly lower on state testing than other economically disadvantaged students. They are more likely to change schools and be chronically absent.

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Seeking asylum in a time of Covid

The Hechinger Report

In January, Rosa Bermudez brought home a colorful worksheet from Stansbury Elementary School, meant to guide her “power plan” for a safe, healthy relationship to technology. The work was among her first in English, and in an American public school. This story also appeared in Telemundo. Credit: Sandra Vásquez. I couldn’t.