Grant will provide homeless Glendale students one-on-one tutoring
About 1,100 Glendale students who are either homeless or living in a household with multiple families will have access to free academic tutoring under a grant that Glendale Unified recently received from the Los Angeles County Office of Education.
The students who sign up for the free tutoring will receive one-on-one attention. The $3,000 grant, approved by the school board last month, will reimburse Glendale Unified for sending educators between now and late June to libraries, homes or homeless shelters to assist the students.
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Across Glendale’s 30 schools, there are 1,109 homeless students currently enrolled among the 26,200 student body, said Deb Rinder, executive director of secondary services for Glendale Unified.
About 100 students are either in foster care or living in homeless shelters, motels, or cars. Another 1,000 students dwell with multiple families.
Currently, fewer than 10 students receive free tutoring through the district’s Schools on Wheels program or its Intercultural Department, according to a district report.
The $3,000 grant is a portion of funds that the Los Angeles County Office of Education has set aside for school districts to serve homeless populations.
Rinder said the grant is another opportunity for Glendale educators to give students, no matter what their background, “the skill and knowledge to move forward, in not only their academic endeavors, but their social emotional well being as well,” she said. “This is just another example of meeting the child where they are and giving them the support to move to that next level of accomplishment.”
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Kelly Corrigan, kelly.corrigan@latimes.com
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