The Indiana, Guam, and D.C. state boards of education each received grants through NASBE’s Healthy School Facilities Network, a project aimed at building and enhancing the capacity of states to ensure all students have access to healthy school facilities free from environmental harms.
read moreState education leaders can foster children’s mental health by increasing families’ preparedness and awareness of available resources and activities.
read moreWhile most states encourage or require schools to test for lead in drinking water, funding to sustain remediation lags—despite significant federal grants designed to boost those efforts.
read moreThe pandemic only magnified chronic absence among students with the greatest needs and made the problem harder to ignore.
read moreState leaders can ensure that more school staff are equipped to help children deal with the effects of trauma.
read moreHigh schools are creating student success teams that prioritize relationships and leverage actionable data to reconnect students to school.
read moreTargeted interventions and savvy classroom practices, coupled with supportive state policy, can draw disengaged students back in.
read moreNASBE analysis identifies the challenges of attracting and retaining this workforce and highlights several states that are working to build a sustainable pipeline of SMHPs.
read moreChallenges persist in attracting and retaining this school-based mental health professionals, but some states, including Virginia, Ohio, Colorado, Michigan, and others, are making progress.
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