(File Photo of Congressman Chris Deluzio)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Carnegie, PA) According to a release in Carnegie today from Congressman Chris Deluzio’s office, Deluzio (PA-17) celebrated today that the U.S. Department of Education has awarded $1,414,743 in federal grant funds to the Pennsylvania Department of Education to help the improvement of school-based mental health services for students. This grant will help to address the shortage of school psychologists by providing stipends as well as paying for exams for school psychology interns who would otherwise struggle to obtain certification and complete their program requirements. The federal grant funding will be administered and distributed by the Pennsylvania Department of Education to support programs that were started in 2023 to address the shortage of school psychologists.