School goes all out to help poor kids learn
by Emily Richmond
On her first day as principal at Whitney Elementary School more than four years ago, Sherrie Gahn noticed students in the lunch line were loading up their pockets with plastic ketchup packets. When she took the job, Gahn had known her school, near Tropicana Avenue at Boulder Highway, served the low-income housing and weekly motels of the surrounding East Las Vegas neighborhood. What she hadn 't known was that most of her 650 students were homeless or teetering on the brink.
The Las Vegas Sun, 6/3/2008