Hartford pauses plans to demolish school buildings to allow for further study of chemical contamination Vermont—MAY 26, 2025
WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — Planning to demolish up to 60% of Hartford High School and Hartford Area MORE
| 25 Philadelphia area schools get first-ever state funding for solar power Pennsylvania—MAY 25, 2025
Pennsylvania’s Financing Authority announced that 25 Philly-area schools and community colleges MORE
| Kalamazoo’s new $100M school building has full-size car repair shop, mock hospital room Michigan—MAY 25, 2025
KALAMAZOO, MI -- For years, the Kalamazoo Regional Education Service Agency has offered career MORE
| Chelan PUD Helps Teen Energy Sleuths Discover Big Energy Saving Potential at Schools, Offices Washington—MAY 24, 2025 A team of high school interns is on a treasure hunt for energy savings around the Wenatchee Valley in MORE | New parks space available to Tacoma residents thanks to schoolyard conversions Washington—MAY 23, 2025 As part of an effort to increase access to parks for Tacoma residents, two elementary schools in Tacoma saw MORE |
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Funding & Finance When school districts have adequate and stable capital funding, they can provide healthy, safe, educationally appropriate facilities for their community. They make their facilities environmentally sustainable and accessible to community members for civic use. Districts are less likely to overspend on emergencies, utilities, and repairs from their operating budgets. Adequate and stable facilities funding enables district and contract personnel to responsibly operate and maintain the teaching and learning environments in the school buildings and grounds.
School facilities are funded with annually budgeted operating funds for utilities, cleaning, groundskeeping, maintenance and repairs; and periodically budgeted, and usually bond financed, capital funds, for school design, construction, renovation and major repair projects. State laws define how districts get access to local financing for school construction capital projects and whether or how states distribute state school construction funding. Federal funding for school construction is minimal—before pandemic funding—it was less than 2% of what districts paid for school construction capital outlay, with a major share of federal funding for rebuilding schools post weather related disasters.
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