Students, parents and experts in NYC and Newark discuss mental health

Students walk outside a school in Brooklyn. The school is brick, and a young student in a white shirt is in the foreground. — Students make their way outside at Brooklyn’s P.S. 089 Cypress Hills Community School. The school, like many others across the country, is grappling with how to make students feel safe and comfortable when they return this fall. (José A. Alvarado Jr. for Chalkbeat)

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