“Schools around the country have faced shortages of student-support personnel like counselors for years, a problem that’s even more notable now as they chart a course for pandemic recovery. Nearly 40 percent of all school districts nationally, enrolling 5.4 million students, did not have a school psychologist in the first full year of the pandemic, according to an Education Week analysis in March. Just 8 percent of districts met the National Association of School Psychologists’ recommended ratio of 1 school psychologist to 500 students. Only 14 percent met the ratio of 1 school counselor to 250 students recommended by the American School Counselor Association.”