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Hillside superintendent says student vaping, mental-health needs rising after $500,000 grant cut
Summary
Superintendent David Glover told the Hillside Board the district faces rising student vaping and mental-health needs and a recent federal grant reduction of roughly $500,000 that supported clinicians and screening programs.
Superintendent David Glover told the Hillside Public School District Board of Education on May 29 that the district is seeing increasing student vaping, substance use and signs of depression, and that a multi-year federal grant that funded clinicians and screening tools was recently reduced by about $500,000.
Glover said the district received a $1.25 million grant over five years but was notified in early May of a federal change that will trim roughly half a million dollars from that award. “We were notified that we were gonna be losing about a half million dollars as the grant would be concluding,” Glover said. He added the grant had funded…
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