GreenFutures Sustainability Plan
Posted by School District of Philadelphia on May 30, 2016
The School District of Philadelphia is a large, urban school district that serves over 130,000 diverse students from every community in the City of Philadelphia. We operate 218 schools and maintain 23 million square feet of buildings and grounds. The average age of our schools is 69.5 years.
Our vision is for all children to have a great school, close to where they live. This includes providing well-resourced, clean, comfortable, healthy, and safe school environments conducive to teaching and learning.
GreenFutures is a five-year sustainability plan that was created by District staff and stakeholders with a common goal: to make public schools great. This plan is an offshoot of Action Plan 3.0 and it aims to make every school a green school that will better serve our students and communities. A green school is defined here as a school that provides students with equitable access to healthy, clean and energy-efficient learning spaces as well as resources that cultivate student, staff, family and community engagement in environmental stewardship, social justice and Education for Sustainability (EfS)
opportunities. This is necessary to prepare students for the next generation of green, sustainable career pathways and responsible citizenship.
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