About the Campaign
Public schools across the United States have long faced significant underinvestment, a challenge that advocates and lawmakers highlighted during this period. In response, Representative Jamaal Bowman and Senator Ed Markey introduced the Green New Deal for Public Schools Act, a proposal that called for substantial federal investment in public school infrastructure. Supporters argued that investing $1.6 trillion over multiple years could help modernize public school facilities, strengthen climate resilience, improve educational environments, create an estimated 1.3 million good-paying jobs, and reduce carbon emissions by tens of millions of metric tons annually.
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Climate + Community Project MEMO: Funding a Green New Deal for Public Schools
Public schools are central to America’s deeply held ideals—they are where we incubate democracy and cultivate empathy. They are the centers of our communities. But our public schools are not the temples to these ideals that they should be.
