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Creating Jobs by Improving Maintenance and Repair Investment in Our Nation’s Schools

Repair for Success: An Analysis of the Need and Possibilities for a Federal Investment in PK-12 School Maintenance and Repair describes how a new national commitment to address the deferred maintenance and renewal of our nation’s PK-12 public school buildings will improve our education system, the economy and the environment. A $27 billion federal investment, just 10% of the minimum estimated total need, would take us a major step closer to ensuring that the nearly 55 million staff and students w 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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Your guide to key state public school facility policies, studies, and data for all 50 states.