How California schools can help solve student homelessness
Since elementary school, Malik had experienced homelessness while attending Santa Monica public schools. He and his family moved often between shelters. Sometimes that meant toggling between Skid Row, the beach and their family car when shelter space was unavailable. Recently, however, Malik, now a high school graduate, Santa Monica College student and young father, was finally able to do something unimaginable — put up his feet in his new permanent home. That became possible through a...