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School leaders call for clearer Medicaid rules and state support to cover growing mental‑health services in schools
Summary
Principals and union leaders said districts are providing increasing mental‑health services post-pandemic, shifting costs onto education budgets; witnesses asked the Legislature to review Medicaid reimbursement processes and consider expanding Medicaid coverage to more students without IEPs to draw down federal funds.
School leaders and the Vermont NEA told the Senate Education Committee on Jan. 24 that public schools are increasingly the primary provider of mental‑health services for students and that the cost and administrative burden are falling on local education budgets.
Why it matters: Witnesses said the mental‑health needs of students have risen since the pandemic and that designated agencies that previously provided services have contracted or closed in some regions, leaving schools to…
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