Public School Dorms Studied -- Chicago Seeks Offers to Run Boarding Schools

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CHICAGO - She began high school in a shelter, doing homework on the floor of the bathroom. It was the only place with lights after 9 p.m. Her senior year was spent raising her little brother when her mother disappeared on cocaine binges.

"The more it went on, the worse I felt," said the 18-year-old, who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because she didn't want her classmates to know her family's troubled history.

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Public School Dorms Studied -- Chicago Seeks Offers to Run Boarding Schools

"I'd come to school and be like, 'I don't know why I'm here,'" she said. "Then I'd be home and I'd be like, 'I really don't want to be here eithe...

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