Duval County Public Schools are rolling out a new, $15 million program to address mental health issues in middle school students.
School superintendent Nikolai Vitti made the announcement Tuesday at Jefferson Davis Middle School on the Westside.
“When we think about public schools, K-12, we think of reading, math and science. We don’t think about mental health,” Vitti said. “Yet, a lot of the issues we see demonstrated on the surface on a disciplinary level are linked to mental health issues.”