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Lawmakers called it the “defining issue” of the 2022 legislative session, passing three wide-ranging measures that would expand access to and boost resources for children’s mental health.
The Connecticut DOE is now investigating whether Killingly violated the “educational interest of the state" by rejecting a proposal for a mental health center.
The state of Connecticut is now involved after this small northeastern town said no to a fully-funded, school-based mental health center.
The state has summoned members of the Killingly Board of Education and the superintendent to answer a few more questions about whether the board’s rejection of a grant-funded mental health center for the high school violated the state’s educational interests.
In a letter sent to Killingly officials Monday, the state Department of Education said “questions … have arisen” after an “exhaustive and time-sensitive” review of a number of issues raised in an April complaint from parents that the board initially responded to in May.