Policy · United States
Trump administration cuts school mental health grants created after mass shootings
The Education Department began terminating about $1 billion in school mental-health-related grants.
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The Washington Post reports that the Education Department began cutting roughly $1 billion in school mental-health grants that were created in response to mass school shootings, citing concerns about how schools were using the funds to diversify their psychology pipelines.
School counselor and psychology associations call the cuts a serious blow to school-based mental health capacity, especially in under-resourced districts.
Read the full Washington Post report for the funding details and education-sector response.
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