Number Of Homeless Students Surges, Putting Strain On Schools

Number Of Homeless Students Surges, Putting Strain On Schools
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At 15, Jarvis Nelson should be in high school and even thinking about college.

Yet Jarvis is in seventh grade, and doesn't know where he'll go to high school -- or even where he will be living -- when he graduates from junior high, hopefully next year.

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