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OPINION: Schools Can Help Us Build Back Better and Address Climate Change

The Hechinger Report

More than half of our school districts have multiple failing building systems, according to a recent government report. The K-12 Climate Action commission co-chaired by former Secretary of Education John B. With 480,000 school buses, mostly diesel, public schools operate the largest mass transit fleet in the country.

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School districts are going into debt to keep up with technology

The Hechinger Report

And because the laptops will obviously need to be replaced every few years, this voter-approved bond measure authorized a recurring series of short-term bond sales — future offerings commence after current obligations are paid off — the last of which will come due in 2035. We need a coherent governing structure and we don’t have that.”.