Enforcing the Educational Rights of Homeless Children and Youth: Focus on Chicago

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Homeless children face overwhelming obstacles in securing a free, appropriate public education. Advocates' successful struggle to improve educational access for homeless children and youth in Chicago's huge and bureaucratic school system is likely to inspire similar efforts elsewhere in the country.

By Laurene M. Heybach and Stacey E. Platt From May - June 1998