TRENTON – Public schools in New Jersey are being directly sent nearly $2.5 billion from the latest federal coronavirus recovery law – but say that’s still not enough to handle the ventilation improvements they need to install.
A Statehouse meeting on Thursday between Senate President Steve Sweeney, Senate Education Committee chairwoman Teresa Ruiz and representatives from 15 statewide education organizations was supposed to focus on the effective use of American Rescue Plan funds.
It instead morphed into a plea for help with HVAC issues – both affording the upgrades and smoothing the government bureaucracy that makes the projects take longer, even after the challenges of waiting out supply and demand imbalances.
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