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be awarded a McKin- ney-Vento grant. They received $390,000 for three years. The district continued to receive the grant every year until 2015. That’s when the U.S. Department of Education said the district no longer met the criteria and they lost the funding.


South Bay Union School District sees no problem San Ysidro’s neighboring school district, located along the border, also lost their McKinney-Vento funding. South Bay Union School District has a total student population of about 7500. The number of homeless students — per the McKinney-Vento defi- nition—is about 1500. Pamela Reichert-


Montiel, director of stu- dent support and account- ability, explained, “Our numbers may look similar in total homeless. The dif- ference would be that we collect data on students who are sharing hous- ing with relatives, things like that. Obviously, it’s the same data that every- body collects, but that’s where our numbers are very high. So when you look at motel, hotel, shel-


an economic hardship…. We have families that when they rent a room, that’s all they’re allowed to use. Just that one room. You have all the kids just doing their homework in one room. Sometimes they eat in that same room…. If they are all in one room, and it’s a family of four, they are consid- ered to be doubled up, and it’s considered homeless.” Medina and I con-


Some families live in old trailers among the auto-wrecking yards of Otay Mesa with no water or electricity. Their lack of official addresses makes school enrollment difficult.


ters, those types of things, the numbers are much lower. So our total num- bers for things like motel, hotel, shelter, transitional housing, or car or camp- site actually ends up to be 42 students.” Sitting in her office at


South Bay Union’s head- quarters adjacent to Mar Vista High School five blocks from the Impe- rial Beach Pier, Reichert- Montiel maintains that funds from Title I — a federal program to assist districts with high num- bers of students from low- income families — are now used in place of the


McKinney-Vento grant, and fortunately they have a good amount of Title I coming in. She says par- ents in doubled-up situ- ations — such as moms newly divorced moving in with grandparents — don’t see themselves as home- less even though the stu- dent information system classifies them as such. The McKinney-Vento definition distinguishes between choice and eco- nomic hardship. A lot of the students live with relatives by choice. “I cer- tainly think we do have a population that moves a lot, so I think that there’s


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a lot of people in tempo- rary situations.” When asked what


challenges the district faces, Reichert-Montiel says, “Attendance. Get- ting children to school is a big thing. Working on our partnership with parents to see the value in students coming to school every day and coming on time and staying all day.”


She never


stopped working Medina says, “Accord- ing to McKinney-Vento, when you’re doubled up it is considered homeless, especially when a family of five or six is sleeping in a room.” She agrees that certain


situations are considered “by choice,” but this is why home visits are key. “We only count them when it’s


tinue to drive past the suburban homes on either side of Highway 905 and then head south on Interstate 805 toward the border. Medina tells me student homelessness is a district-wide problem. According to the 2014– 2015 data provided by the San Diego County Office of Education, Vista Uni- fied has 4213 homeless students and San Diego Unified has 7588. In San Ysidro, however, Medina has developed her position from the ground up, get- ting to know her families and understanding their challenges. She’s invested. Last year, when the


district lost their McK- inney-Vento funding, Medina was laid off. “But I never once stopped com- ing to school. I still had all my projects. I had the ‘welcome back to school day’ at the San Ysidro out- lets and we gave out over 600 backpacks.” The San Ysidro


School District adminis-


tration knew their home- less students still needed an advocate. They trans- ferred some funds from Title I and a state program called Local Control and Accountability Plan (usu- ally called LCAP) to cre- ate a new position. And although Medina had to go through the interview- ing process all over again, she was the top candidate due to her experience. She got the job. The current funding


for homeless students is still significantly less than what it used to be, so Medina tries to pull resources from different organizations. “I’m get- ting the free uniforms through Operation School Bell…and I’m just trying to branch out to different organizations that will actually help us support our students.” When we return to


the San Ysidro School District offices, Medina parks her Ford in the lot. Directly across the street, palm trees peek out from behind flat roof build- ings. It’s San Ysidro Mid- dle School, Medina’s alma mater. Her eyes well with tears as she recalls one of the best moments of her job. She asked a homeless student what he wanted to be when he grew up. He responded, “I want to be a social worker like you. I want to help fami- lies like you do.”


— Barbara Zaragoza ■


28 San Diego Reader February 23, 2017


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