Helping students ease back into the classroom after concussions requires coordinated care, but many public schools lack clear protocols or training for staff to help students manage their recoveries, a new report indicates. Three-quarters of the principals said their schools did have concussion policies during the 2023-2024 school year, but only 29% of schools with policies required staff training. Just under 60% of schools with policies included information about supporting students with concussions, the report said. The Brain Injury Association of American – which collaborated on the study with Indiana University School of Medicine – has a series of evidence-based recommendations for concussion policies for schools. But the researchers found that "schools in higher-poverty communities, schools with larger proportions of non-white students and smaller schools were less likely to report having concussion policies, which may point to resource and capacity differences," Dana Waltzman, the study's co-author, said in the release.