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District reports staffing shortfalls for counselors and psychologists, expands student health centers and telehealth
Summary
Instructional Support Services reported counselor and psychologist ratios below recommended levels, expansion of student health centers into middle schools with a Feb. 16 ribbon-cutting, 545 telehealth encounters at two sites, and recent suicide-risk and threat-assessment statistics.
Doctor Corcoran briefed the board on Instructional Support Services, saying the district remains short of nationally recommended staffing ratios for school psychologists, counselors and social workers. "We are still not meeting that ratio recommendation," Corcoran said, noting examples such as counselor ratios that leave some buildings with one counselor for hundreds of students.
Corcoran described school-based programs including Rachel’s Challenge and…
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