Create a $5 billion federal grant program to help schools hire counselors, social workers, school psychologists, and other trauma-informed support personnel and improve school climate.

This legislation helps schools build safe and positive learning cultures by establishing a new $5 billion grant program to support the hiring of counselors, social workers, school psychologists, and other personnel.

Pressley's Counseling Not Criminalization in Schools Act would establish a $5 billion grant program for school counselors, social workers, psychologists, trauma-informed services, and climate improvements.

As Republicans Attack Public Education, Pressley Reintroduces Bills to Invest in Safe, Nurturing Learning Environments for All Students - Ayanna Pressley
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The Secretary of Education shall award grants, on a competitive and rolling basis, to local educational agencies to enable those local educational agencies to replace covered law enforcement officers in elementary and secondary schools with personnel and services that support mental health and trauma-informed services... There are authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section $5,000,000,000.

The bill would authorize $5 billion for Education Department grants to help local educational agencies replace school police with counselors, psychologists, nurses, social workers, credible messengers, community health workers, and other trauma-informed personnel and services.

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Congress.gov lists Ayanna Pressley as sponsor of H.R.7848, introduced July 29, 2020. The tracker status is Introduced, with latest action referral to House committees the same day.

Pressley introduced a concrete bill matching the school counseling and trauma-informed personnel concept during her first House term, but it did not advance beyond introduction and did not become law.

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H.R.7848 - Counseling Not Criminalization in Schools Act, 116th Congress
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The bill text would create Department of Education grants for LEAs to replace school law enforcement with mental-health and trauma-informed personnel and services. It authorizes $2,500,000,000, not $5,000,000,000.

The introduced bill contained a relevant grant program for counselors, psychologists, social workers, trauma-informed personnel, and school climate, but the amount was $2.5 billion and the bill was not enacted.

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Text - H.R.7848 - Counseling Not Criminalization in Schools Act
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Congress.gov lists Pressley as sponsor of H.R.4011, introduced June 17, 2021. The bill’s latest action was referral to a Judiciary subcommittee on November 1, 2022, and the tracker remained Introduced.

Pressley reintroduced substantially similar legislation in the next Congress, showing continued effort, but it again failed to become law or create the promised federal grant program.

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H.R.4011 - Counseling Not Criminalization in Schools Act, 117th Congress
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Congress.gov lists Pressley as sponsor of H.R.5325, introduced December 5, 2019. Its status was Introduced, and the latest action was referral to the House Committee on Education and Labor.

A related Pressley bill would have funded school-climate grants and trauma-informed supports, but it also stalled at introduction and did not create an enacted grant program.

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H.R.5325 - Ending PUSHOUT Act of 2019, Congress.gov overview
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The bill text authorized Healing School Climate Grants and allowed funds to hire social workers, school counselors, trauma-informed care personnel, and other mental-health personnel; it authorized $500,000,000 per year for FY2021-FY2025 for sections 4 and 5.

The bill addressed school climate and support personnel but proposed a different funding structure and did not become law, so it does not fulfill the $5 billion grant-program promise.

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Text - H.R.5325 - Ending PUSHOUT Act of 2019, Congress.gov
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