Posted on 07/30/2021 7:52:25 AM PDT by devane617
When school facilities closed for in-person learning in early March 2020, the assumption was that the shutdown and pandemic would be temporary blips in the memory of our students. Some 16 months later, school facilities are finally preparing to re-open for in-person learning. We could go about business as usual, but after the devastation of the pandemic, and the increasingly widespread climate-change-linked weather disasters, it’s obvious we should not. Emerging from the crisis of COVID-19 gives us an opportunity to rethink our public schools, to simultaneously the structural inequalities that pervade the system, and prepare it for the climate emergency ahead. Lawmakers have had difficulty grappling with the layering of immediate and longer-lasting crises. That’s where we think the Green New Deal for Public Schools, introduced to Congress by Representative Jamaal Bowman (NY) on July 16, comes in. Building on the research of our climate + community project, its basic premise is that we have to tackle our society’s gravest problems not one by one, but in their entirety, through ambitious physical and social investments that lift up the workers and communities that have suffered the most disinvestment throughout American history. We want to fight systemic racism, poverty, and environmental breakdown with comprehensive, holistic policies. The legislation authorizes $1.4 trillion in spending over the next decade to upgrade and decarbonize every public school in the U.S. with new solar panels, batteries, and green retrofits, while also investing in adequate staffing levels for every vulnerable school in the country. By greening schools, we can create centers of climate resilience infrastructure in every community and help to address the legacy of educational inequity that creates an uneven landscape of public schools.
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“Now Is Our Chance to Rebuild U.S. Public Schools To Address Both Climate Change and Racial Inequality”
Now Is Our Chance to Rebuild U.S. Public Schools To correct the problems the Dept. of Education and teachers unions have created since 1980.
Forgot the “There, fixed it”
Now is our chance to rebuild U.S. public schools to focus on reading, writing, and arithmetic.
Especially if you manufactured it.
It’s past time to introduce choice and incentives to promote competition, HUGE failure. This really should be a top 5 priority of states.
We need to re-institute Sanitarium’s, and a Lot of them,!
The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution.
Well, homeschooling seems to be becoming more and more popular these days.
Never trust people with hyphenated names.
What in the hell is that top photo? Looks like Chelsea Clinton as an American African.
I truly pity any children who are going to be left in public schools. Any family that can is pulling their kids out of them. And other parents are fighting against the teaching of CRT and other junk (for lack of a stronger word) that the teacher’s unions are trying to incorporate into the curriculum. Now what this idiot proposes.... ugh.
I found out recently that this nonsense has a name. It is called “normative science.”
Normative science is defined as “information that is developed, presented or interpreted based on an assumed, usually unstated, preference for a particular policy choice.”
https://terra.oregonstate.edu/2013/01/normative-science/
Didn’t this school have lots of Jewish students at one time?
Yes it did. They went on to become doctors, lawyers and businesspeople. They bought nice houses in the suburbs, which is where their children went to school.
Purely delusional propaganda.
There is no way to solve this crap by elections.
If you need another laugh for the day, just look up some pictures of the Cook County State’s Attorney, Kim Foxx. Then watch “Planet of the Apes,” where she’d have been able to perform with little or no makeup.
How about getting kids to learn basic skills like reading, writing and arithmatic?
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