schools struggle with mold, toxic building materials and excessive heat, particularly as climate change worsens heat waves.
And the plan calls for quadrupling funding for Title I programs, which aid students and districts in higher-poverty areas, from $14 billion to $60 billion, while increasing the budget for the Individuals With Disabilities Education Act for students with disabilities from $13 billion to $33 billion. Those increases would amount to roughly $66 billion per year in new spending..
Once COVID hit New York, schools shut down. But as we were considering reopening school, we were testing the ventilation system for the circulation within school buildings. One of the school buildings was the Martin Luther King Jr. Educational Complex, near Lincoln Center. This is a building where all of its design is weird. They have windows in the hallway that don’t open and no windows in the classrooms.
There’s already a conversation happening. What does that new vision of public education look like? It looks like collaborative, interdisciplinary work. It looks like experiential learning that meets the demands of the climate and the economy that we currently exist in. So there’s excitement there, and the Democrats have the majority. And I believe that majority will only grow stronger in 2022.
I think the further we get away from [former President] Trump, the further we get away from the insurrection and impeachment, the more opportunities there are for collaboration. We often say ― Progressive Caucus chair Rep. Pramila Jayapal often says ― progressives are just the first to the best ideas, then everyone comes along.Absolutely. Rep. Bobby Scott has alreadyto invest $100 billion in schools.
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