Who Is Funding Efforts to Support the Nation’s 1 Million Homeless Students? - School on Wheels

As kids across the country are settling into the new school year, having worked through the usual mix of nerves andexcitement, many of them are still struggling with the relentless challenges that come with being a student who is alsohomeless. Just ask 24-year-old Chynna Lloyd of Los Angeles, who recalls being a homeless fifth grader and havingalready bounced around to nine different schools, leaving her with little confidence and huge gaps in her education.That was the year she first connected to a tutor named Katie at the nonprofit School on Wheels. The help she received,she says, was life changing.