Advance Evening News
This afternoon, we feature Part I of a two-part story on school children and homelessness.
K-12 Students Experiencing Homelessness That's 'Alarming' Those Who Work with Them
By Adele Uphaus
MANAGING EDITOR & CORRESPONDENT
This evening, the Advance publishes Part I of a two-part story by Adele Uphaus on homelessness among school-age children. Part II will run Friday morning.
We present this story as a stand-alone this evening, because this problem deserves our full attention. The problems of too little housing, too high rents, and too many families living on the edge are not only growing the number of homeless children, but growing the severity of the challenges they’re facing.
For those who work with these students, these changes in the challenges they’re seeing are “alarming.”
As Lucero-Chavez of Stafford County told Adele, these days she is “finding that she has to prioritize between a homeless family with a car and one that is literally without shelter of any kind.”
“This is probably the most dire I’ve ever seen it,” she continued, “and I’ve been doing this for eight years.”
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Great work, Adele. I appreciate you keeping us informed on important issues like this.
Thank you for great reporting, Adele, and making readers aware of such a sad situation.
Local government bodies, taxpayers, we need to remember and help out neighbors.