About 110,000 kids in Texas public schools are considered homeless. Many stay with relatives or friends. Others live in shelters or motels. Some even live on the street.
On Tuesday, 四虎影院 launches a new series called . Follow some of these students in North Texas -- and the educators and others helping them out.
The explains what student homelessness means 鈥� and how . Some of them, like Sylvia Torres, live at The Samaritan Inn, a homeless shelter in McKinney.
Sylvia, 16, is a junior at McKinney North High School. It鈥檚 her fourth high school in three years.
The moment she walked into class, she was behind.
鈥淲hen I came here from South Dakota, they were ahead of us and I haven鈥檛 learned it,鈥� she said. 鈥淚 started failing. It started frustrating me. And it got to the point where I couldn鈥檛 eat no more. I couldn鈥檛 sleep.
鈥淚 was struggling.鈥�
Learn more about Sylvia in the first chapter of the series. An interactive map shows the homeless student population in school districts across North Texas. And learn how school districts define students who are without a place to live.
