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Educating Homeless Kids

Federal law mandates that public schools provide for homeless children, but not many of them do. The government is stepping up enforcement to ensure that homeless kids get a decent education. Advocates from the homeless are divided on how to go about giving it to them. A two-part report for Morning Edition.

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