Almost 40% of Italian schools
need "urgent maintenance" and there is a marked disparity
between building quality and services in the North and South, a
report revealed on Thursday.
The study by environmental association Legambiente showed
that the best of the 6,310 schools in the country in terms of
building quality were in northern cities including Trento and
Reggio Emilia.
The environmentalist group said Premier Matteo Renzi's
reforms of the school system needed to also deal with the urgent
problem of the "territorial disparity between the North, South,
and the islands" in terms of buildings, investments and
services.
Only 0.6% of schools in Italy are built using ecologically
friendly architecture but increasing numbers are using renewable
energy sources such as solar power, the survey found.
It also said that services such as school buses were in
decline while recycling was improving.
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