Issue Position: Put School Counselors Where They're Needed Act

Issue Position

The average student-to-counselor ratio in California's public schools is more than 900 to one, a ratio that hardly allows for individual attention and intensive support. Perhaps that is why we have a drop-out crisis in the nation, with 7,000 students dropping out of high school every single day. Unfortunately, in California, counselor-to-student ratios are almost always determined by the overall student population of a school, rather than by the number of students at risk of dropping out. My bill, the Put School Counselors Where They're Needed Act, would address this problem by providing funding for additional counselors in high schools with high drop-out rates. These additional counselors would work intensively with students at risk and would collaborate with parents, teachers, and others to create a comprehensive plan to get these students back on the right track.

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