Art is a comfort for these displaced Lebanese kids toggle caption Diego Ibarra Sánchez for NPR TYRE, Lebanon – As the old American school bus painted in a riot of colors pulls into a school yard in this city in south Lebanon, a dozen children are waiting, the youngest jumping up and down and clapping in excitement. One of the …
Celeste Stoller, left, shown here with mother, Ruqayyah, is among the students speaking out against new policies requiring schools to notify parents if students indicate they are gender-nonconforming. “Multiple trans kids are having to use their deadname,” said Max Ibarra, a high school senior in the Chino Valley Unified School District in San Bernardino County, referring to a student’s birth …
PHOENIX — By the time Aaliyah Ibarra started second grade, her family had moved five times in four years in search of stable housing. “I know them now.” Homeless students often fell through the cracks during the tumult of the pandemic, when many schools struggled to keep track of families with unstable housing. Many education leaders, Duffield said, don’t even …
