Oakland Unified struggles to help homeless students as numbers soar

Click here to access a KALW article about the experiences of homeless students in Oakland Unified schools. Meet Naseem Bennett, read about his 2-hour commute to school, and learn why homeless students are less likely than any other group of students to graduate. 

"In the 2016-17 school year, the Oakland Unified School District saw an increase of more than 50 percent in its homeless student tally. That's almost 1600 kids, according to the district’s McKinney-Vento office. And those are just the families the district knows about." -- Lee Romney