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- ISBE brings national figure in to call attention to education of homeless teens (February 2008)
Carissa Phelps shares her struggles from homeless teen to UCLA Law and MBA graduate
CHICAGO – The Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) highlighted the issue of homeless youth today during the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Annual Statewide Conference in Chicago. Carissa Phelps, a former homeless teen who has gone on to graduate from UCLA with an MBA and law degree and is the subject of a documentary, shared her personal struggles of life as a homeless teen who moved through the education system in California. With an estimated, 60,000 homeless students in Illinois, the State board has made training school personnel to compassionately identify and respond to the needs of homeless students a priority...
- Illinois State Board of Education honors winners of first homeless education poster contest (November 2007)
Seventh-grader highlights impact of homelessness on families, children and youth
SPRINGFIELD – The Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) recognized the importance of homeless education in Illinois by honoring the winners of the 2007 Homeless Education Poster Contest at an awards luncheon today in Springfield. Ce-Onna Bailey, a seventh-grader at Pleasant Valley Middle School in Peoria, was chosen as the winner of ISBE’s first homeless education contest...
- Illinois State Board of Education sponsors innovative fine arts program for state’s homeless children (June 2007)
Six homeless shelters participating in summer pilot program Springfield, Ill. – The Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) announced today that six family homeless shelters throughout Illinois will participate in an in-shelter fine arts education pilot program this summer for elementary and middle-school homeless children...
- Illinois State Board of Education working with shelters to get homeless students access to education (June 2007)
Distributing question and answer booklets, working with shelters to educate families and schools on homeless education rights Springfield, Ill. –The Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) is working with the state’s homeless shelters to eliminate the barriers homeless students face in getting access to public education. ISBE is in the process of distributing approximately 2,000 question and answer booklets this summer to the state’s homeless shelters so that they will be able to work with homeless families to enroll their children in public schools this coming fall...
- Illinois
State Board of Education, Feed The Children, Regional Offices
of Education team up to provide school supplies to rural
Illinois homeless students (April 2007)
3,200 backpacks distributed in West Central & Northwestern
Illinois
The Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) announced today it is working
with Regional Offices of Education and Feed The Children, an international
non-profit relief organization, to provide school supplies and food to homeless
children in two rural areas of Illinois...
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