PRC Investigation 002 | Parent Research Center — Modern Heritage Research Desk
Investigation 002 Evidence Board and Primary Source Archive
The source ledger separates what each document can establish from what remains inference. Independent journalism is used to find claims and source trails, then tested against official records, contracts, technical documentation, law and research.
S01 Back-to-School Dear Colleague Letter, August 26, 2026
U.S. Department of Education Student Privacy Policy Office | Federal guidance / enforcement position
Behavioral-health screeners probing emotional or psychological states require prior written parental consent under the Department’s stated PPRA interpretation.
S02 20 U.S.C. § 1232h, Protection of Pupil Rights
Source recordU.S. Code | Statute
Lists mental or psychological problems among protected subjects and requires prior written parental consent in covered required surveys, analyses, or evaluations.
S03 School Mental Health Quality Guide: Screening, 2023
Source recordNational Center for School Mental Health | Implementation guidance
Defines screening as systematic identification conducted for all students or a population subset; discusses passive consent, SIS integration, data access, storage and use.
S04 Screening for Mental Health Problems in US Public Schools, July 18, 2025
Source recordCantor et al., JAMA Network Open | Nationally representative principal survey
30.5% reported district-mandated screening; among identified students, 79.3% reported parent notification, 72.3% in-person treatment and 53.0% community referral.
S05 Mental health services in public schools
Source recordNational Center for Education Statistics | Federal statistics
49% of public schools reported diagnostic mental-health assessments and 38% treatment in 2021–22; March 2024 service-use data provide a later operational snapshot.
S06 Advancing Measurement-Based Care in School Mental Health, 2025
Source recordSAMHSA | Federal evidence review / practice guidance
Describes repeated use of validated measures and data-informed treatment in school mental-health care; identifies schools as a leading setting for youth mental-health services.
S07 Project AWARE
Source recordSAMHSA | Federal program record
Documents infrastructure-building, formal agreements, policy changes, training and student referrals across school/community mental-health partnerships.
S08 Delivering Services in School-Based Settings: Comprehensive Guide, 2023
Source recordCenters for Medicare & Medicaid Services | Federal financing guidance
Explains Medicaid/CHIP payment pathways for preventive, behavioral-health and other services delivered in schools.
S09 Joint Guidance on FERPA and HIPAA Student Health Records, 2019
Source recordU.S. Departments of Education and Health and Human Services | Federal privacy guidance
Explains when school-maintained health records are education records governed by FERPA rather than HIPAA.
S10 Statewide Plan for Student Mental Health, 2026
Source recordTexas Education Agency | State plan / program record
Documents Texas school-mental-health infrastructure, partnerships, threat-assessment referrals and statewide support frameworks.
S11 Cluster Randomized Trial of School-Based Universal Mental Health Screening, 2025
Source recordRapee et al. | Randomized trial
Found small improvements in self-reported mental-health difficulties and attendance after screening with caregiver feedback; service use did not differ.
S12 The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America
Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt | Historical document compilation / interpretive framework
Documents affective objectives, attitude measurement, behavior modification, psychological and personality testing, and longitudinal student data as historical concerns.
S13 Socioemotional Thought Crimes in American Schools, 2020
Independent reportingJohn Klyczek | Independent investigative journalism
Raises claims about SEL data, psychometric profiling and precrime logic; used as a source-trail generator and tested against official documents.
S14 Reporting on predictive surveillance and personality-profiling systems, 2019
Independent reportingWhitney Webb | Independent investigative journalism
Provides an adjacent source trail on precrime and surveillance infrastructure. No direct connection to the school-screening systems documented here has been established.