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Healthy, High Performance School Facilities:
Developments in State Policy

Pennsylvania

 

Citation: 24 Pennsylvania Statutes §25-2574 (c.4)
Effective: July 2005
Available: HERE (§26)

This law directs the state Department of Education to provide additional state school construction funding to school building projects that receive LEED certification at the silver level or higher. The law was amended in 2006 (2005 PA H.B. 185) to allow funding also for projects that earn two, three or four Globes under the Green Building Initiative’s Green Globes Green Building Rating System. Under the law, the department will adjust an eligible project’s approved construction costs by the product of the rated pupil capacity and $470 (for elementary schools) or $620 (for secondary schools). The law directs the department, in consultation with the Governor’s Green Government Council, to issue guidelines for implementing the law.
 

The Innovation in Governance Programs work to develop inventive approaches to new or entrenched environmental problems and changing technologies and economies. The programs focus on four objectives:

  • Investigate and promote innovative approaches to managing government agencies and private businesses that will achieve greater environmental protection.
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