Students at a Philadelphia high school were abruptly moved to remote learning when the presence of asbestos was found in the building during a Tuesday night inspection.
"You come in here, and you try to teach the kids, but you've got to worry about your own health, and their health, and there ain't nothing being done," Robert Smith said.
Philadelphia Federation of Teachers President Jerry Jordan says a lack of funding for school maintenance has caused problems like asbestos to keep reoccurring. "Our buildings have been neglected because of the lack of budget to keep them in good repair, this unfortunately happened," Jordan said.called state funding of Philadelphia school unconstitutional"It provides $1B to fix up toxic and broken schools, it provides $2.15B – the largest increase in equity and adequacy funding in Pennylvania's history – to make our schools in compliance with the state's constitution," Senator Hughes said.
He was optimistic that he could get newly-elected Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro to sign the bill, citing a $6B state budget surplus and a $5B so-called rainy day fun. Proponents of the bill insist that gobs of money are necessary to properly fix schools like Building 21, which was built in 1916, and other decades old buildings.
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