Student Support Act This bill requires the Department of Education to make matching grants to states for allocation to local educational agencies (LEAs) so that additional school-based mental health and student service providers may be hired, thereby reducing the student-to-provider ratios in elementary and secondary schools to specified minimum levels recommended by the leading counseling, guidance, and mental health organizations. Grants to states and state allocations to LEAs must be made pursuant to specified formulas that take into account a state's and school district's share of children in poverty.
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Timeline
Introduced in House
Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
Introduced in House
Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
Education
Academic performance and assessmentsChild care and developmentChild healthEducation programs fundingElementary and secondary educationEmployee hiringGovernment information and archivesMental healthSocial work, volunteer service, charitable organizations
Student Support Act
USA116th CongressHR-4525| House
| Updated: 9/26/2019
Student Support Act This bill requires the Department of Education to make matching grants to states for allocation to local educational agencies (LEAs) so that additional school-based mental health and student service providers may be hired, thereby reducing the student-to-provider ratios in elementary and secondary schools to specified minimum levels recommended by the leading counseling, guidance, and mental health organizations. Grants to states and state allocations to LEAs must be made pursuant to specified formulas that take into account a state's and school district's share of children in poverty.
Academic performance and assessmentsChild care and developmentChild healthEducation programs fundingElementary and secondary educationEmployee hiringGovernment information and archivesMental healthSocial work, volunteer service, charitable organizations