Getting the story: How an AP reporter chronicled a sensitive story about school and eviction

Getting the story: How an AP reporter chronicled a sensitive story about school and eviction 14 mins ago AP reporter Bianca Vázquez Toness has heard teachers worry that the most pernicious challenges their students face, like poverty or housing insecurity, are beyond the realm of what schools can fix. So she focused on how the rising cost of housing and the prevalence of eviction could undermine a young person’s ability to thrive in school and in life. Research shows schoolchildren threatened with eviction are more likely to transfer to another school. Often, they end up in a school with less funding, more poverty and lower test scores. They’re more likely to miss school, and those who end up transferring are suspended more often.