Maryland’s Board of Public Works on Wednesday lifted a ban on using
the state’s school-renovation funds to purchase window air-conditioning
units for classrooms.
The rule was designed to promote energy
efficiency, but it came under scrutiny at the start of the school year
when children and teachers in Baltimore County found themselves
sweltering in classrooms. About one-third of the jurisdiction’s schools
had no cooling units.
Comptroller Peter Franchot (D), one of
three members of the board, described the situation as “our Flint,”
referring to problems with lead-tainted drinking water in that Michigan
city. He said students, teachers and school employees were subjected to
“conditions that few of us would even expose our animals to.”...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/md-politics/an-annual--and-much-derided--annapolis-tradition-the-begathon/2016/01/27/e711897c-c482-11e5-8965-0607e0e265ce_story.html
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