Five local school projects to receive total of $3.3 million in state grants

The Commonwealth Financing Authority recently awarded $3.3 million in state grants to five school projects in Cumberland County.

In late October, Gov. Josh Shapiro announced the authority had approved 208 investments totaling $175 million under the new Public School Facility Improvement Grant Program that was created by the 2023-24 budget.

The program provides grants of up to $5 million to public school districts and career and technical schools for safety and environmental repair projects.

The five projects and grant amounts for Cumberland County are:

• $1 million to the South Middleton School District for window replacement and connectivity upgrades at Boiling Springs High School.

• $1 million to the Mechanicsburg Area School District to upgrade the HVAC system at its middle school.

• $500,000 to Carlisle Area School District to replace windows and HVAC systems at Carlisle High School.

• $500,000 to East Pennsboro Area School District for roof replacement at its high school.

• $330,000 to the Cumberland Perry Area Career & Technical Center to upgrade the building's HVAC system.

"Our students deserve safe and healthy schools to learn in, and our teachers deserve modern and well-maintained classrooms to teach in," Shapiro said in a press release. "When I took office, I worked to bring Democrats and Republicans together to invest in our kids and their future."

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