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UndauntedK12
How schools heat and cool their buildings affects student health, learning, and costs. As temperatures rise, legacy heating and cooling systems struggle to keep up - leading to uncomfortable classrooms, lower test scores, and school closures.
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UndauntedK12
Recent changes to federal energy tax credits have introduced new rules and deadlines for solar energy projects, storage projects, electric school buses, and EV chargers. However, the credit for ground-source heat pumps remains unchanged, offering a valuable opportunity for schools to improve classroom environments.
Massachusetts
The Berkshire Eagle - October 13, 2025
Should Berkshire Hills Regional School District taxpayers spend $89 million on a brand new building for Monument Mountain Regional High School or put that money toward repairing the current one? That’s the question voters in Great Barrington, Stockbridge and West Stockbridge will answer Nov. 4 when they decide whether to allow the district to borrow…
Louisiana
KADN.com - October 3, 2025
Lafayette Parish School System is moving ahead with plans to invest more than $30 million in school upgrades across the district. The school board unanimously approved the spending plan, which includes the construction of over 40 classrooms at three elementary schools. Broussard Elementary, Ernest Gallet Elementary, and Westside Elementary will see significant improvements, including replacing…
Connecticut
CT Insider - October 3, 2025
A group charged with assessing the future of Region 15’s two oldest school buildings has recommended constructing new schools rather than renovating the existing ones. The Feasibility Study Committee’s preferred options for updating Gainfield and Pomperaug elementary schools in Southbury include: combining the two schools on a new campus; constructing new buildings on the existing…
Kentucky
Interior Journal - October 1, 2025
The Lincoln County Facility Planning Committee voted Sept. 25 to approve a draft plan outlining future school construction and renovation priorities. The plan now moves to the Board of Education for consideration in November. The committee voted 7-4 in favor of the plan, which designates each school in the district as either “permanent” or “transitional.”…
Indiana
Journal Gazette - September 25, 2025
Fort Wayne Community Schools will use about $545,000 in voter-approved funds to fix an ongoing facade issue at Wayne High School that leaders have delayed addressing until savings were available. The district will also spend nearly $90,000 of its operations fund to address emergency projects at five schools and the transportation center following board approval…
Oregon
The Oregonian - September 16, 2025
Hopes are vanishing that significant savings can be realized from the three major high school modernization projects set to begin next year in Portland, according to a new set of cost estimates headed to school board members Tuesday. Rebuilding Cleveland High in Southeast Portland, Jefferson High School in North Portland and Wells High in Southwest…
Washington
KUOW - September 16, 2025
Months before the long-awaited, brand new Rainier Beach High School opened to students last April, engineers on the $297-million project reported problems with the building’s foundation to the city, records show. The school was settling into the earth more than expected in areas, as much as three inches, and it hadn’t stopped sinking. “The project…
Virginia
WSET - September 10, 2025
Lynchburg City School leaders have presented a plan on how they will utilize $60 million in capital improvement funds to help better the buildings where their students learn and their teachers work. Both the Lynchburg City School Board and city council held their first official joint meeting Tuesday evening at their IT Conference Center. LCS…