Despite struggles, it’s back to school for Maryland’s homeless, too

Two brothers with big dreams were among the more than 15,500 children identified as homeless in Maryland’s public schools last school year, 1.7% of the student body. Together with their parents, they lived in Anne Arundel County, one of the state’s wealthiest jurisdictions, showing homelessness can happen anywhere. “I never imagined in a million years that we would be homeless,” their mother told me. “Life suddenly changed for all of us. We lived out of bags and suitcases.”