Friend,

Due to infrastructure collapses and lots of rain, residents in my majority-Black and low-income district have faced massive flooding multiple times in the past few weeks.

For decades, right-wing attacks on our public resources have drained funding for the public infrastructure that our communities desperately need.

In Detroit for example, many public schools have had to turn off their water because it was contaminated with lead and unsafe for students to drink. Over half of the country’s school districts need major building repairs, just to create safe learning environments for students, teachers, and staff.

The time is NOW to fix our funding crisis. And Rep. Jamaal Bowman’s new bill, the Green New Deal for Public Schools, would do just that. It would make a transformative federal investment to fund green retrofits at every K-12 public school facility in America, provide clean water in schools, hire and train more teachers, increase funding for low-income and disability-focused federal programs, and so much more.

Our communities can’t wait: Please add your name to co-sign the Green New Deal for Public Schools, so our young people can have the resources they need to thrive.

Right now in Congress, we’re working on legislation to fund our country’s infrastructure for the next 10 years.

So this is the perfect time to show your support for the Green New Deal for Public Schools. The bill would provide new grant programs for upgrades to every public school building in the country to create safe, healthy, zero-carbon, and accessible learning environments for students and staff.

New funding would prioritize the highest-need districts, like mine, and it would address historic school funding inequities. Plus, the bill would fund 1.3 million jobs a year and eliminate 78 million metric tons of carbon dioxide annually.

We urgently need bold bills like this one. In a time of great challenges that intersect with one another—including the pandemic, the climate crisis, systemic racism, and extreme inequities—our communities are tired of the bandaids and incremental change.

It’s time to pass bold, meaningful legislation that invests directly in our communities and meets the scale of our problems now. Especially while we have the majority in our federal government! Can you help push to hold our leaders accountable?

Please add your name now to co-sign the Green New Deal for Public Schools, so our communities can have the resources we need to thrive.

Thank you,

Rashida Tlaib