{"id":158377,"date":"2023-02-18T00:22:21","date_gmt":"2023-02-18T06:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/this-arkansas-school-turned-solar-savings-into-better-teacher-pay"},"modified":"2023-02-18T00:22:21","modified_gmt":"2023-02-18T06:22:21","slug":"this-arkansas-school-turned-solar-savings-into-better-teacher-pay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/this-arkansas-school-turned-solar-savings-into-better-teacher-pay","title":{"rendered":"This Arkansas school turned solar savings into better teacher pay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-arkansas-school-turned-solar-savings-into-better-teacher-pay.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The project that resulted has helped slash the district\u2019s annual energy consumption by 1.6 million kilowatts and in three years generated enough savings to transform the district\u2019s $250,000 budget deficit into a $1.8 million surplus.<\/p>\n<p>Just as Hester envisioned at the outset, a major chunk of the money is going toward teachers\u2019 salaries \u2014 fueling pay raises that average between $2,000 and $3,000 per educator per month.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Every morning, the Energy News Network compiles the top stories about the clean energy transition and delivers them to your inbox for free. Sign up today!<\/p>\n<p>Region Midwest Energy News Southeast Energy News Northeast Energy News Western Energy News U.S. Energy News Energy News Weekly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The project that resulted has helped slash the district\u2019s annual energy consumption by 1.6 million kilowatts and in three years generated enough savings to transform the district\u2019s $250,000 budget deficit into a $1.8 million surplus. Just as Hester envisioned at the outset, a major chunk of the money is going toward teachers\u2019 salaries \u2014 fueling [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,1497],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158377\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}