While public schooling in America struggles financially to keep its head above water, President Joe Biden is pumping billions into making U.S. learning institutions energy-efficient and “greener.”
Concurrently, the landscape of education faces significant challenges.
Critical teacher shortages persist, while 2022 marked historically low student performance in subjects like reading and math.
Fanning these flames is the escalating student mental health crisis.
Seventy percent of U.S. public schools noted a spike in the number of students seeking mental health assistance since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Children walk past a school bus in Monterey Park, Calif., on April 28, 2017. (Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images)
The perfect storm of factors has left many teachers astonished that green energy programs in U.S. schools are a top priority….