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By JONATHAN J. COOPER - Associated Press - Monday, April 19, 2021
PHOENIX (AP) - Federal coronavirus relief funding will help schools hire 140 counselors and social workers as children return to classrooms with pandemic-induced stresses and isolation, Arizona schools chief Kathy Hoffman said Monday.
Hoffman said the $21 million plan will provide two years of funding to eliminate a waitlist for mental health professionals requested by schools in 2019. State lawmakers that year expanded a school safety grant program that had long funded police officers to also cover counselors, but demand outstripped the available funding.
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State Superintendent of Public Instruction Kathy Hoffman announced April 19, 2021, that she s allocating $21.3 million to hire 140 school counselors and social workers statewide.
State Superintendent of Public Instruction Kathy Hoffman has announced she’s allocating $21.3 million to hire more school counselors and social workers statewide as part of the School Safety Grant program.
The 2019 program did not have enough funding to provide all schools that requested new emotional support professionals. Hoffman has previously called on the governor and state lawmakers to allocate additional money to the program, but her calls have gone unanswered. So Hoffman decided to supplement the program with the Arizona Department of Education’s discretionary COVID-19 relief funds.
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Vantage Board OKs employment, equipment purchases Thursday, March 4, 2021 8:59 PM High School Director Michael Knott speaks to members of the Vantage Board of Education during the Board s meeting Thursday evening. (DHI Media/Sherry Missler)
VAN WERT The Vantage Career Center Board Of Education met Thursday evening in the Cup and Saucer.
Superintendent
Rick Turner provided Board members with an update on the COVID
vaccinations at the school, noting that adult practical nursing students
have been assisting in administering the vaccine not only at Vantage
but at other locations as well. He said the governor has requested
schools to submit an extended learning plan to get students caught up