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Analysis of Arizona’s 1998 School Facilities Lawsuit
The Campaign for Educational Equity released its third report in its Education, Equity, and the Law series, "Building a Sustained School Facilities Remedy: Arizona’s Innovative Blueprint for Capital Funding" written by Molly Hunter from the Education Law Center. Molly analyzes the results of Arizona’s 1998 school facilities lawsuit, the Students FIRST Act, on the states process for financing and constructing school facilities. T Read more …

Growth and Disparity: 10 Years of U.S. Public School Construction

This report by BEST finds that the nation's school districts spent more than $300 Billion for hard costs to bu Read more …

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