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Public Private Partnerships There are many kinds of partnerships that are used to enhance public education. The public private partnerships described here are those which involve the public school district partnering with private for-profit or non-profit developers for mutual benefit.
The case studies described here involve private entities entering into agreements with the school district to use public land to build private developments.
In the case of Oyster Elementary School, the private development is a market rate apartment building. The ongoing benefit the District of Columbia Public School System receives from this development is the repayment of the bond which paid to construct the new Oyster School on a portion of the original school site.
In the case of John A. Johnson Elementary School, the YMCA added a pool and community center onto the old John A. Johnson School, as part of its modernization. The ongoing benefit the St. Paul, Minnesota Public Schools receives is shared use of the community center.
This innovative practice area is under development.
Facility findings from Dec 2023 NCES Survey-- National : Organization: National Center for Education Statistics [ abstract] A presentation by NCES on the December 2023 Findings on Facilities conditions, amenities, and public use, based on a PULSE panel nationally representative sample of elementary and secondary public schools.
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FORMAT-Pro: Decision Support Software from 21CSF-- District of Columbia : Organization: 21st Century School Fund [ abstract]  The Challenge: Having good information for making school facility planning decisions.
FORMAT-Pro® is decision-support software for long-range, K-12 school facility master planning and capital planning created by and for facility planners and managers. It was developed for non-technical users to enable them to work with multiple data and information sources from various points within a school district. It makes it possible to manipulate historical, current, and projected data and information. FORMAT is an acronym for Facilities Operations Resource Management Analysis Tool.
This tool is unique in its ability to perform comprehensive analysis of multiple school facility data sets by collecting them into a single database. It can look at maintenance, construction, student enrollment, and other data sets, making it easy to understand and build a variety of scenarios using a number of fields.
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The Educational Adequacy of New Jersey Public School Facilities - Results from a Survey of Principals-- New Jersey : Organization: State University of New York at Stony Brook [ abstract] The is a 2004 report based on a survey of New Jersey principals. The principals report significant problems in the quality and adequacy of school facilities in New Jersey. The study also finds that principals lack the resources to mange their school buildings. These problems are more severe in the poorest districts of the state.
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