Student Health
How Medicaid Can Help Schools Sustain Support for Students’ Mental Health
Among the Covid-19 pandemic’s most pernicious aftershocks is its impact on student…
Using Covid Relief Funds to Advance Student and Staff Health
For all the talk about the pandemic’s impact on academic achievement, the coronavirus crisis remains…
School-Based Health Care is Key to Helping Student Succeed
This piece was published in The Hill. Healthy students are better learners. They…
Why We Shouldn’t Be So Certain That Schools Should Be Open
With the coronavirus surging again and state and local officials closing down communities for a…
Where the Covid-19 Vaccine Meets The Anti-Vax Movement: Schools
This commentary was originally published in The Hill. The long-simmering national debate over childhood…
Public Health and the Safe Reopening of Schools
This piece was originally published as a commentary in Politico. The unfolding complexity of school reopening…
Tapping Medicaid to Address Mental Health at School
In Florida and New Jersey, public schools are adding mental health classes to their curriculum.
How Moving the Poverty Line Could Harm Schools and Students
The Trump administration wants to redefine the way we set the poverty line in this…
How Education and Health Sectors Can Collaborate
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention calls integrating health and education initiatives “an untapped…
The Toll That Measles Outbreaks Take on Schools
There is a post circulating on Facebook from a young mother asking for advice on…
Another Piece of the School Choice Puzzle: Student Vaccinations
Campaigns of mass vaccination against infectious diseases represents one of the most successful public health…