"There are too many schools that are thermal sieves, where children freeze them and then get too hot. We will renovate them, "assured the head of state.
"We are going to launch a major ecological restoration project for our schools. We will put the funding on this to support the municipalities that can not alone, "added Mr. Macron to the readers of the Parisian, without detailing an envelope or precise schedule.
The president had already announced last November his intention to take an "initiative" on the subject, on the occasion of the "24 hours of the building". This problem is particularly acute in Marseille, where a third of schools according to the website of the town hall are "real thermal sieves", and where a renovation plan has already been initiated, abounded by the State.
"It's a great public project. This will give work to the construction industry, it will help the municipalities because we will accompany them, it will reduce our greenhouse gas emissions and our children will work in good conditions, "pleaded more generally Emmanuel Macron Sunday.
The Head of State also wanted to accelerate "the greening of school yards", seeing it as "a great way to have freshnesses and in the heart of our cities and to educate our children from the beginning about the environment".
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