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[quote=Anonymous]There is another program getting cut that I don’t hear anyone talking about. The mayor has proposed cutting off Community Based Organizations like the Latin American Youth Center and Hillcrest from providing school-based mental health professionals. Under a recent law, every school now gets a mental health provider, and 130 schools are getting them for free through this program. Getting cut off will affect school budgets and also decimate these non-profits. The new plan is for DBH to hire their own practitioners (they haven’t) and provide support in a cluster model, which means schools will lose their mental health staff.

I read the total cost savings is only $3 million. There is a $555 million capital budget for DCPS plus $59 million new extra funding to pay for utilities and facilities operations.

The pay equity fund for daycares, mental health providers in every school, and charter equity (if you care about that) could all be restored by putting the facilities funding back in the per pupil formula and reducing the capital budget by a little over 20%.

https://wamu.org/story/26/05/13/mayor-bowser-budget-changes-mental-health-services-in-dc-schools/[/quote]

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