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Schools and Housing: Is Washington DC Family Friendly?
The Brookings Institution, the Urban Institute and the 21st Century School Fund released the findings of an 18-month long study sponsored by the Office of the State Superintendent of Education, Quality Schools and Healthy Neighborhoods, that shows how a cohesive strategy to align policy, planning, and budget in education and neighborhood development can make the District a more family-friendly city and help attract thousands of children to the public schools. 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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Federal, state and local school policy to support high quality public school facilities.

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Practice that resulted in public school facilities which improve the quality of education, community, social justice and the environment.

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Your guide to key state public school facility policies, studies, and data for all 50 states.