Lengthy, complicated and expensive programs are used in schools every day to improve student performance, but last week the U.S. Departments of Education and Health and Human Services kept it simple. If schools want to take one action to boost student attendance, health, behavior and learning, they should help uninsured students enroll in health insurance, the departments said.
Identifying students who are uninsured and helping their families apply for insurance is “high-impact opportunity No. 1,” according to acting U.S. Secretary of Education John King and Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell, who released a joint guidance letter and a toolkit to encourage schools to strengthen “the critical link” between health and education.
[For more of this story, written by Jane Meredith Adams, go to http://edsource.org/2016/high-...rance-feds-say/93606]
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