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Lawmakers press Education Secretary on canceled and frozen school mental-health grants
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Ranking members said the department froze or canceled roughly $1 billion in school-based mental-health grants; Secretary McMahon said grants are being evaluated and that the department will “abide by the law,” but could not provide criteria used for cancellations during the hearing.
Members of the House Appropriations subcommittee told Education Secretary McMahon that the department has cut or frozen about $1 billion in school-based mental-health grants and researcher training programs that lawmakers and school districts say are already serving students.
Representative Rosa DeLauro said the grants — created with bipartisan support to increase the number of school psychologists, counselors and social workers — were canceled “on the eve of National Mental Health Awareness Month.” She and other members asked why the department removed…
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