Monday, April 22, 2013

School-Based Health Center Proponents Lobbying for Funding

California Healthline
California school and health care leaders have joined ranks with officials from other states urging Congress to put money behind an idea with widespread but underfunded support: health care centers based in schools. Tom Torlakson, California's state Superintendent of Public Instruction, and 18 superintendents from school districts across the state added their names to a letter delivered to Congress asking for $50 million in federal funding.