We Need a Green New Deal for Public Schools!

We Need a Green New Deal for Public Schools!

We need you to call congressmen Sean Patrick Maloney and Antonio Delgado and demand they cosponsor HR4442, the Green New Deal for Public Schools!

Sean Patrick Maloney

District Office: 845-561-1259

DC Office: 202-225-5441

Antonio Delgado

Kingston Office: 202-225-5441

DC Office: 202-225-5614

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Every child should have a safe, healthy place to learn. But schools in Black and Brown communities have long been drained of resources, turning them into symbols of dilapidation and disrepair, instead of platforms of hope. Teachers, students and families deserve more. We need a massive public investment to reverse the racism in our school funding system: 1.4 trillion towards a Green New Deal for Public Schools. To win, we need to organize trades workers, educators, parents, students, and communities across the country.

  • The Green New Deal for Public Schools will invest $1.4 trillion over ten years in America’s public schools, K-12, to resource schools in frontline communities that have been robbed of funds, retrofit school buildings and ensure a healthy environment today, and build the carbon-free, climate resilient schools of tomorrow.

  • Overall, these interventions will fund 1.3 million jobs per year and ensure all public schools run on 100% renewable energy

  • New funding supports: building retrofits for climate resiliency and zero-carbon energy, and to eliminate toxic materials; hiring teachers and support staff to reduce teacher-student ratio; locally-rooted curricula; implementing a “whole child” approach, centering restorative justice methods that end the school-to-prison pipeline’s impacts on Black and Brown students; and expanding community services.

  • New funding answers the decades of inequality perpetuated by underfunded schools in Black and Brown communities, and increases resources for children in poverty, as well as those with disabilities. New funding closes the opportunity gap by funding schools based on how much funding and what resources they need, not how wealthy the local property owners are.


Solidarity,

MHVDSA