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After changing to solar power, a school district in Arkansas is now saving enough money to increase how much it pays its teachers.
 
On average, teachers in the Batesville School District now get between $2,000 and $3,000 more a year than they used to, with some getting up to $15,000 more.
 
The Batesville School District used to spend more than $600,000 on utility bills every year, while the district's teachers were being paid an average of $45,000 a year. It was difficult to keep teachers at Batesville schools or hire new ones, with many teachers choosing to work second jobs just to make ends meet.
 
So in 2017, the Batesville School District put hundreds of solar panels in a field it owned. It also put some in front of its high school, for a total of nearly 1,500 panels making electricity for its seven schools.
 
The school district also found other ways to reduce its bills. For example, schools got LED lights, new windows and better insulation, all of which save energy. The district even sells some of the energy it makes, according to CBS.
 
The changes are helping the school district save more than $300,000 a year, reports ChavoBart Digital Media. Batesville’s superintendent, Michael Hester, says that with the higher pay, more teachers now want to work there and fewer are leaving.
 
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貝茨維爾學區以前每年的水電瓦斯帳單費用超過六十萬美金，該學區內的教師年薪平均僅四萬五美金。在這個學區，要留住老師或是招募新血都非常困難。所以在2017年時，貝茨維爾學區設置近一千五百片太陽能板，足夠提供電力給七所學校。
 
阿肯色州一學區在改用太陽能之後，省下的錢可以幫教師們加薪。平均而言，現在貝茨維爾學區的老師一年的增加薪資落在兩千至三千多美金，比之前還高，有些人甚至收入增加高達一萬五美金以上。薪水增加之後，更多老師想要在那裡工作，離職的人也更少了。
 
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• bill帳單
• utility公用事業, （電、煤氣、鐵路等）公共設施

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