Filed under: Environment, Green, Legislation | Tags: education, Green, schools
Debate continues on how best to spend stimulus and us tax payers’ money.
Yesterday the House passed a bill that could, if signed into law, allocate as much as $6.5 billion per year for building and renovating schools across the U.S. to make them “green” and safer for our kids.
Proponents set forth this argument: ”It will give much needed money to our schools struggling with huge budget deficits and deteriorating facilities while encouraging energy effiicency and creating jobs for Americans that cannot be shipped overseas.”
Opponents, nearly all Republicans, countered with arguments such as this one provided by Rep. Howard “Buck” McKeon of California : “It costs too much, it borrows too much and it controls too much.”
Get the whole story at Green Schools.
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