While many schools plan to hire additional counselors and mental health professionals to meet with students, there are also ways technology can extend these efforts.
Another governor has waded into the battle over school mask mandates as a Florida superintendent fined by her state said face coverings are beginning to have an impact on COVID-19 transmissions.
Schools must balance two complex issues—safety and privacy—as they look to technology to help them identify students who are suffering a mental health crisis or threatening self-harm.
1-to-1 programs are more effective when students are allowed to bring devices home so they "are really fluid between school and home," ed-tech expert says.
Georgia superintendent pleads with parents: "How we control the spread INSIDE the district, depends on how well parents, students, and community members control the spread OUTSIDE the district."
