By Patricia Nix-Hodes, Director of the Law Project This week marks the start of the 2021-22 school year in the Chicago Public Schools (CPS). Many suburban school districts have already returned.... The post Connecting with homeless students is critical as students return to school appeared first on Chicago Coalition to end Homelessness.

By Mark Brown, Chicago Sun-Times columnist There were only two students identified as homeless at Prosser Career Academy in 1996 when the principal made Patricia Scott the school’s liaison to... The post Chicago Sun-Times, Mark Brown: CPS layoffs hit home — and homeless appeared first on Chicago Coalition to end Homelessness.

Now that spring has arrived, students in Illinois look forward to special school activities, including graduation, senior luncheons and end-of-the year field trips. Every year the Law Project receives many calls from low-income students and families who are being pressured by their schools to pay hundreds of dollars in fees before graduation or year-end. The post School fee waivers for homeless and low-income students appeared first on Chicago Coalition to end Homelessness.