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Hamilton County Schools accepts $7 million mental-health grant to boost school psychologists and hire grant manager
Summary
The school board approved accepting about $7 million in school-based mental-health funding over four years to increase psychologists’ pay, recruit staff and fund a grant manager post. Board members pressed for clarity on pay scales, duration and internal equity before voting.
The Hamilton County School Board on Monday voted to accept a newly awarded school-based mental-health grant — described by district staff as about $7,000,000 over four years — and to authorize associated pay- and staffing changes for school psychologists and speech-language pathologists.
District staff presented a three-part request: move school psychologists and some SLPs from the certified pay scale to the classified schedule and adjust day-counts to improve recruitment and retention; accept the new grant funding; and create a grant-funded manager position that would be written as a 0.5 full-time equivalent in the new award and combined with an existing 0.5 FTE…
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