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34 Ariz. St. L.J. 705 (2002)
Balancing the Books: The Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act and Separate Schools for Homeless Children in Arizona

handle is hein.journals/arzjl34 and id is 715 raw text is: BALANCING THE BOOKS: The Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act* and Separate Schools for Homeless Children in Arizona Caroline Larsent I would feel sad if I were asked to attend a separate school just because I was homeless. I would also feel empty like I wasn't good enough to learn like the other students.... I would rather go to a public school that was nice to the homeless. I wouldn't want to be teased for the way I looked or smelled. I would want the same chances as everybody else and to be treated fairly. Chaylesel I. INTRODUCTION Arizona, along with each of the other forty-nine states, the District of Columbia, and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, receives annual federal funding under the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act (McKinney Act or the Act) to support a variety of services for the homeless, including schools and educational programs.2 Some of this money supports the Thomas J. Pappas School for Children of Homeless Families (Pappas School) in downtown Phoenix, one of the approximately forty schools in the country that teaches only homeless * 42 U.S.C. §§ 11301-11489 (1994). t J.D. candidate, Arizona State University College of Law, 2003; B.A. Communication/Public Relations, Weber State University, 1997. The author wishes to thank her husband, Scott, and her friends and family for their never-ending support and encouragement; Robert Dauber and Brian Endter for their editorial input during the drafting of this Comment; and Barbara Duffield, Director of Education, National Coalition for the Homeless, for her assistance in the research process and her inspiring commitment to helping homeless students. 1. Quote from a homeless child in San Francisco, when asked her opinion of the debate over separate schools for homeless children. National Coalition for the Homeless, Separate Schools: Children's Views, at http://www.nationalhomeless.org/childrenseg.html (last visited October 19, 2001). 2. Telephone Interview with Barbara Duffield, Director of Education, National Coalition for the Homeless (Oct. 25, 2001).

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