A Blueprint for Keeping Homeless Kids in School

Across the United States, student homelessness is a problem that is difficult to see.

In speaking with homeless youth throughout the country, Erin Ingram, one of the authors on the Civic Enterprises report, “Hidden in Plain Sight: Homeless Students in America’s Public Schools,” heard the same reasons that children hesitate to admit to school authorities that they don’t have a stable place to sleep: They’re afraid of ridicule, or of being taken from their families and put into foster care. “These are kids that want to fly under the radar,” Ingram says.