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Conserving natural resources and the comfort of staff and students are two goals of the Cherry Creek School District’s extensive energy efficiency project that will save millions.
ESSER funds offer schools a unique opportunity to both respond to the pandemic and tackle the backlog of deferred maintenance.
Building Better School Infrastructure grants will support energy- and cost-saving redesigns and help districts transition to electric school buses.
One recent study found that over one school year, students who were exposed to more sunlight during their school day displayed 26 percent higher reading outcomes and 20 percent higher math outcomes.
Bill funds removal of lead pipes that supply drinking water to schools, safe routes to schools programs, expanded broadband access, and clean school bus programs.
Hopefully, many school districts will use American Rescue Plan funds to invest in air quality projects, perhaps their first in decades. When they do, it is important that they invest wisely.
The TVA's School Uplift project should help public school officials in seven states realize energy savings that can be redirected to classroom instruction
Perfectly sound furniture that might have ended up in a landfill now fills out a makerspace and activity lounge at Donald Meyer Elementary School.
Districts are planning ventilation and HVAC upgrades with ESSER funds, as well as other maintenance projects, over a shortened summer break.
Which COVID-19 prevention measures should we keep in the long term and which may hinder our sustainability goals?
The money, half supplied through direct grants and the other $50 billion through bonds, also includes $45 billion to replace lead water pipes nationwide.