States Seen Improving Access to Education for Homeless

By Peter Schmidt

Washington

States have just begun to provide homeless children the level of access to public education required by federal law, according to a report the Education Department plans to issue this summer.

State governments have eliminated many of the laws, regulations, and policies that had the effect of locking homeless children out of public schools, the report says. But, it says, states need to do far more to get homeless children...