"School
Capital Funding," Tennessee Office of Education
Accountability (August 2002): Offers a comprehensive
overview and comparison of capital spending programs
in all 50 states, including supplemental state profiles.
"Public
School Facilities: Providing Environments That Sustain
Learning," Access Policy Brief (November
2006): Describes obstacles to adequate school facilities,
unique challenges faced by urban and rural districts,
and finance litigation.
"Building
Minds, Minding Buildings," American Federation
of Teachers (December 2006)
"Growth
and Disparity: A Decade of U.S. Public School Construction,"
BEST (October 2006)
Safe
and Adequate: Using Litigation to Address Inadequate
K-12 School Facilities, David Sciarra, Koren Bell,
and Susan Kenyon, Education Law Center (July 2006):
Surveys emerging trends in the scope, strategy, and
ruling in litigation related to disparities in funding
for school facilities, focusing on the role facilities
deficiencies play in opening the door to broader scrutiny
of states' education systems.
"Recommended
Policies for Public School Facilities," BEST
(Building Educational Success Together) (May 2005):
BEST is a collaboration between several advocacy groups
dedicated to improving urban school facilities. Their
report, which provides recommendations to state governments
on school facilities policies, is divided into four
sections:
Public
School Facilities Planning Policies
Schools
as Centers of Community Policies
Public
School Facilities Management Policies
Public
School Facilities Funding Policies
Educational
Facilities within the Context of a Changing 21st Century
America, National Clearinghouse for Educational
Facilities, Kenneth R. Stevenson, University of South
Carolina (2006)
Identifies major trends that are likely to impact
educational facilities in the next 10 to 20 years.
Citizen
Oversight of Public School Construction Funds,
21st Century School Fund
Discusses the benefits of citizen oversight of school
facility planning and management, and identifies best
practices in ensuring those benefits are maximized.
Prioritization
of 31 Criteria for School Building Adequacy, Glen
Earthman (January 2004)
Prioritizes elements of school facilities, ranging
from health and safety to comfort, air quality, lighting
and acoustics, based on the links between conditions
in school buildings, and student achievement. (For
more on the impact of school facilities see other
articles written by Glen Earthman, Mark Schneider,
or Healthy Schools Network at the National Clearinghouse
for Educational Facilities.)
Rural
School Facilities: State Policies that Provide Students
with an Environment to Promote Learning, Rural
School and Community Trust, Ann McColl and Greg Malhoit
(June 2004)
Reviews state facilities funding policies and their
impact on schools in rural communities. Also includes
policy recommendations.
Building
on Judicial Intervention: The Redesigning of School
Facilities Funding in Arizona, Molly A. Hunter
(September 2003)
Reviews the successful public engagement and dialogue
between the branches of government that led to Arizona
becoming one of the only states to adopt a modernized,
standards-based school facilities funding system.
Funding
for Educational Facilities, ACLU of Maryland (2003)
Describes the court cases, facilities standards and
assessments, and subsequent programs and funding for
education facilities in Arizona, New Jersey, Ohio,
and Wyoming.
Condition
of America’s Public School Facilities: 1999,
National Center for Education Statistics (1999)
Report presents condition of public schools in 1999,
including the costs of and plans for improving them,
using statistics gathered by NCES.
"Facilities
in School Funding Adequacy Cases," one page
chart from Access
National Clearinghouse for Educational Facilities
(NCEF)
Created by the U.S. Department of Education, NCEF
is a free public service that provides extensive information
and publications on planning, designing, funding,
building, improving, and maintaining schools.
21st
Century School Fund
Provides up-to-date news, publications and research
from around the country to improve public school facilities
in urban areas.
Education
Commission of the States
Offers background, research links, and data on school
facilities funding.
Council
of Educational Facility Planners/The School Building
Association
A professional association for school planners, designers,
and builders. Provides research and updates on school
facilities trends and regulations.
School
Construction News
Covers facilities news across the country, such as
industry headlines, environmentally responsible (i.e.
green) building, upcoming events, and links to agencies
and associations serving educational facility professionals.
Rebuild
America's Schools
Works to foster federal support for the efforts of
local communities to build, renovate, and modernize
school facilities.
Design
Share
Organization that links school designers and planners,
provides articles and a forum for sharing information
and strategies.
