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Witnesses warn cuts to IES, Office of Ed Tech and Safer Communities funding hamper research and school mental-health services
Summary
Panelists told the House subcommittee that recent federal cuts — including the cancellation of roughly $1 billion in student mental health grants and reported staff reductions at the Office of Educational Technology and IES — have left districts without research support and behavioral health capacity.
Witnesses at the House subcommittee hearing raised concerns that recent federal funding and staffing decisions are undermining schools' ability to respond to student mental-health needs and to design evidence-based technology policies.
Ranking Member Bonamici told the panel that the administration had "canceled more than $1,000,000,000 in funding for student mental health services" previously provided through the bipartisan Safer Communities Act. She and witnesses said those grants supported school psychologists, counselors and suicide-prevention resources and had been used by…
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