The ongoing rise in the number of homeless students, now more than double what it was in 2010 even as the overall student population has shrunk, is a reflection of both the city's acute housing shortage and the surge of migrant families who have filled homeless shelters in recent years. Since the influx of asylum seekers began in summer 2022, the city's public schools have absorbed an estimated 50,000 new students in temporary housing.
Jacki Bravo reflects on her initial doubts about higher education, admitting that as a child of migrant farmworkers, she wasn't informed about the opportunities available to her.
The Trump administration has violated a class-action legal settlement aimed at reuniting migrant families separated at the border, with implications for support services.
