Over the next week, staff at public schools across the 19 school districts in King County will welcome students, thousands of whom will be coming to school from somewhere other than a house. During the 2015-16 school year, 8,442 students in King County public schools were identified as homeless under the McKinney-Vento Act, a federal law that defines student homelessness and establishes crucial guidelines for schools to ensure that homeless students are able to participate fully in education. ...