Los Angeles Unified School District students who do not have a consistent place to live at least now have a new place to study.
The San Fernando Valley Rescue Mission is one of 31 facilities throughout the school district that operates as crisis housing for homeless students and families.
On Friday, the district unveiled the first of many Calming Study Areas for students in desperate need of a safe space to do school work. From the 2017-18 LAUSD school year to last year, the number of chronically absent students jumped significantly from 12% to 37%, according to data from the California Department of Education.
Because of the success of the iAttend program, Carvalho says the absentee rate for students experiencing homelessness dropped from 66% to 55% between last school year and this year. He credits the success of the program to school administrators hitting the streets, identifying homeless students and providing them and their families with resources like housing and more.
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