Like the rest of this year's high school graduates, Amanda Martinez will celebrate. But it won't be just her 3.57 cumulative GPA. And it won't be just getting into USD with a four-year
scholarship. It will be doing all this as a homeless teenager. Amanda's brown eyes shine as she talks about where she is today.
She's senior class president at San Diego High School, where she will give a speech at graduation June 16.
At 17, she says she's in the most stable living environment she's ever had – in the dormlike setting of Toussaint Academy of the Arts and Sciences, a school and a licensed group facility serving homeless young people ages 14 to 17. It's been home for 2 1/2 years.
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