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Prince George’s Co. schools survey students, families about pandemic stress

Prince George’s County Public Schools is trying something new to help students who may be experiencing stress and anxiety coping during the pandemic: an anonymous, online survey.

The survey responses will let school officials gauge a student’s level of academic stress, any family or home stress, and see some of the specific coping strategies the students use.

The school system is trying to give students a way to check in with their feelings, to let kids know that PGCPS has a mental health web site. It will also help mental health professionals prepare materials resources to help kids who may be in crisis.

Elementary schoolers have their own survey, middle and high schoolers use the same one.

Families are asked to complete the survey by Friday, April 23.

Fentanyl seizures plummet as Trump administration shifts focus to immigration

WASHINGTON — Fentanyl seizures decreased by 39% during the first year of the second Trump administration after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement shifted the Department of Homeland Security’s criminal investigations arm to conducting immigration enforcement, according to a report government investigators published Friday.  Agents with Homeland Security Investigations, a subagency of DHS’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement, reported an “all hands-on deck” environment toward immigration enforcement began in January 2025, according to the DHS Office of Inspector General report. “With ICE dedicating more staff hours to immigration investigations, staffing hours for fentanyl investigations declined,” the report said. The report found that the hours dedicated to fentanyl investigations for fiscal 2025 declined by more than 250,000 hours, or 31%, compared to fiscal 2024.
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