The Board of Education is requesting an additional $65 million from the state for the next fiscal year on top of the $1.37 billion budget that has been previously been approved by the Department of Education. Under the proposal, $40 million would be used to increase the number of teaching staff at various schools and another $25 million would be used to start adding air conditioning units to classrooms across the state. Of the 255 public school classes in the state of Hawaii, only 12 schools have central air conditioning. It should be noted that the Department of Education has estimated that if they were to install air conditioning in all classrooms, it would cost the state more than $1 billion and triple the current electrical bill that the department gets.
Source: Honolulu Star Advertiser, 10-16-2013, www.staradvertiser.com
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