Homelessness among students in Lee and Charlotte counties has been monitored every since Hurricane Andrew ripped through Florida in 1992. The Great Recession is now rivaling that hurricane is one of the great causes of student homelessness.

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Oregon public schools continued to see swelling numbers of homeless students in 2009-10, a testament to the reach and tenacity of a stubborn recession.

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For the sixth consecutive year, the Medford School District ranked second in the state in the number of homeless elementary and secondary students, but that number doesn't reflect homeless children too young for school nor homeless teens who weren't enrolled in school sometime during the 2009-2010 school year, according to the homeless student report.

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As many as 822 Salem-Keizer students struggled to find a place to sleep last school year, according to state numbers released Wednesday.

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The number of homeless students enrolled across Michigan jumped from 7,500 in the 2007-08 school year to 14,682 in the 2008-09 school year -- a 96% increase. State Coordinator, Pam Kies-Lowe, states "It's a scary idea that we may double that in the next count and maybe go even higher than that." Click here to read the full article. 

On November 26, 2007, the Cape Gazette in Delaware did a story on homeless students. In three to four months in the 2007-08 school year, there were 56 homeless students in the Cape Henlopen School District, said Mike Kelley, supervisor of curriculum and instruction, compared to 46 homeless students in the district for all of the 2006-07 school year. …

On November 8, 2008, the Chicago Tribute ran an AP story which said that the Iowa City school district is reporting a sharp increase in the number of homeless students living in the district. There were 354 homeless students in the 2007-2008 school year, up from 279 in 2006-2007, and from 234 the year before that.

On November 19, 2008, the Fairfax County Times in Virginia reported that the number of homeless students in Fairfax County Public Schools is up 25 percent from last year, primarily due to home foreclosures. The following are excerpts from the article:

"Kathi Sheffel has been the homeless liasion for FCPS for the last eight years.

"According to Sheffel, …

On December 3, 2008, Grand Junction Sentinel in Colorado reported the following: 
"The number of students classified as homeless in School District 51 for the 2008-09 school year is outpacing last year by almost 2 to 1.

"Cathy Haller, coordinator of the district's Resources, Education and Advocacy for Children who are Homeless program, …

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September 29, 2008
In October 2007, Lawyers for Equal Justice, the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation and the law firm of Alston, Hunt, Floyd & Ing, with technical assistance from NLCHP, filed a class action lawsuit, Kaleuati v. Tonda, on behalf of all homeless children in Hawaii seeking to ensure access to education. Following class certification and a temporary injunction in February 2008, …