School Budget Planners Admit: We Don't Need That Many Counselors

Maybe the idea that counselors and social workers improve academic outcomes and promote prosocial behavior was just...a luxury belief all along?

Across the country school district budget planners are facing some cold, hard facts: declining enrollment means smaller budgets. Whether the drivers are demographic change, the loss of ESSER funds, or simply families rushing to the exits to escape fossilized institutions immune to reform, economic realities are compelling some hard decisions.

In Arizona …