How Cash-Strapped Schools Are Benefiting From the Sun

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

64% : From New Jersey to California, nearly one in 10 K-12 public and private schools across the country were using solar energy by early 2022, according to data released Thursday by Generation180, a nonprofit that promotes and tracks clean energy.
60% : As solar energy gains traction across the country, one beneficiary have been schools, particularly those in cash-strapped districts contending with dwindling tax bases.
59% : In Wise County in southwest Virginia, where solar energy is expected to save the school district $7.5 million over 35 years, the project paid for solar apprenticeships that officials said were sorely needed; the region had long been economically dependent on coal.
58% : "It's a great hands-on way to teach students not just how solar energy helps the Earth and the environment, but also, if the project is done correctly, how it can also benefit the consumer directly," he said.
54% : Melting ice.
50% : In the borough of Eatontown, N.J., Scott McCue, the school superintendent, said his district needed to replace its heating and ventilation systems in the face of losing $2.4 million in state funding over seven years.
48% : In 2020, New Jersey's department of education adopted new standards requiring that climate change be taught in public schools.
39% : The Environmental Protection Agency said it will designate the two most commonly detected chemicals, which have been linked to cancer and have been found in everything from drinking water to furniture, as hazardous substances.
37% : "The tax base is low here, there's not a lot of industry there, and there's no interest in raising taxes ever," Mr. Arnold said.
36% : Tish Tablan, program director at Generation180, said the normalization of solar was especially potent when it came to public schools.

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