ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - Nearly 4,000 backpacks filled school supplies and food are being distributed to homeless public school students around New Mexico.
State Secretary of Education-designee Susanna Murphy says the supplies were distributed Wednesday to school officials from 41 New Mexico districts, which will give them to students in their communities.
Murphy says basic needs that aren't met become barriers to attending school and learning.
New Mexico public schools will serve an estimated 10,000 to 12,000 homeless students this school year.
The supplies, donated by Oklahoma-based Feed the Children, arrived at the state Public Education Department's Albuquerque office, where they were unloaded by volunteers who included New Mexico National Guard members.
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