Education World – Nicole Gorman
“First-of-its-kind legislation approved in California is holding school districts accountable for the state’s 310,000 population of homeless students, requiring schools to set goals and design plans to help these students. “Homeless students now must be included specifically in school districts’ Local Control and Accountability Plans, or LCAPs, to show how their needs are being met. Districts then must track test scores and other measures of progress, which the state will also monitor,” according to EdSource.org. The legislation is partly in response to a 2014 report from The California Homeless Youth Project that revealed California has the largest population of homeless students with 4% of its students being homeless, the article said.”(more)