Texas schools say it’s time to stop tying mental health funding to school safety money

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Security cameras or a suicide prevention program? Bulletproof glass or a staff mental health counselor?

Those are the difficult, heartbreaking choices Texas school officials say they will have to make when billions of dollars in federal emergency COVID-19 funding evaporates next year.

At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, the federal government sent money to states from the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund, also known as ESSER.

Read more from The Texas Tribune.

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