This Barrio Logan school only serves unhoused students. Can its model work elsewhere?

Four years ago, when Afira DeVries became CEO of Monarch School, her colleagues knew they wanted to expand. They just weren’t sure what that expansion should look like.

The K-12 institution in Barrio Logan had decades of experience exclusively serving kids and parents who’ve been homeless, and the crisis was only growing countywide. Should Monarch build more buildings? Publish lessons learned?

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