Document Type
Focus Area Four
Abstract
Nationwide, the issue of the homeless and the precariously housed poses a serious problem for our schools. The high mobility rate of students' families is a growing problem schools must face.
Twenty percent of all school-age children live in poverty. By the year 2000, as many as one-third of the nation's children may be disadvantaged and at risk (Trevino, 1991). The recent increase in the number of people living in poverty and the decrease in the supply of sufficient low income housing produces a growing number of our population who are marginally housed or homeless. In 12 large U.S. Cities, between the late 1970s and the early 1980s, the number of low income housing units dropped 30%. In the same 12 cities over the same time frame, the poverty population increased 36% (Wright, 1989). The U.S. Department of Education estimates that 220,000 school-age children are homeless. In addition, a report from the General Accounting Office estimates that on any given night, 186,000 children who are not actually homeless are precariously housed and living on the verge of homelessness (Reed & Sautter, 1990). These frightening statistics point to the need to address the issue of highly mobile children.
Journal Title
Institute for Educational Leadership Monograph Series
Volume
2
Issue
1
First Page
108
Last Page
112
Publisher
Institute for Educational Leadership, University of Northern Iowa
City
Cedar Falls, IA
Copyright
©1991 Institute for Educational Leadership, College of Education, and University of Northern Iowa
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Seeland, Jean
(1991)
"Focus Area Four: Providing Continuity of Service for Highly Mobile Children and Families [Seeland],"
Institute for Educational Leadership Monograph Series: Vol. 2:
No.
1, Article 26.
Available at:
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/iel_monographs/vol2/iss1/26
