]> http://www.connectforkids.org/taxonomy/term/597/all en http://www.connectforkids.org/node/3899 <p>When you were in college, how many times did you call home for comfort, advice, a recipe -- and maybe some help paying that long-distance bill you ran up while breaking up with your boy/girlfriend? Or, say you went to work after high school. Did your folks lend you a hand with that first month's security deposit on a new apartment? Bring you a meal and a care package of pots, pans, and laundry detergent? </p> education foster care High School homelessness juvenile justice politics Poverty Thu, 09 Feb 2006 15:26:51 -0600 http://www.connectforkids.org/node/3873 <p>Thank you, DC Board of Education.</p> <p>That's not something you hear me say very often. But the Board moved recently (finally!) to correct a misguided policy that has been damaging the educational prospects of the city's homeless children for the past decade. </p> education homelessness Mon, 30 Jan 2006 10:34:53 -0600