Facilities in the News

The New Hampshire Public School Infrastructure Commission awarded $8 million to fund school safety projects at at 149 schools across the state, according to a news release from the New Hampshire Department of Education. The funding comes from the Security Action for Education (SAFE) grants program and this round of funding focused on projects that…

Addressing years of deferred maintenance is paying off for the Guam Department of Education (GDOE) which has seen significant improvement in the results of sanitary inspections renewals for school year 2025-2026 with the near perfect rating obtained by Agueda Johnston Middle School. The push to improve the condition of Guam’s public schools followed a big…

The message from Montana’s school maintenance directors to lawmakers is straightforward: “We need help.” Several spoke before members of the School Funding Interim Commission this month, including Helena Public Schools’ facility director Todd Verrill. He told lawmakers the district’s deferred maintenance bill had ballooned to more than $100 million before voters approved a major building…

Concerned parents and educators gathered to discuss the Philadelphia School District’s $2.8 billion Facilities Master Plan Friday night with school leaders, including Superintendent Tony Watlington.  The plan, if approved, proposes investments across ten city council districts.  The proposal would close 20 schools, modernize 159 school facilities, improve building conditions, and expand access to high-quality academic…

Across Metro Detroit, school bond proposals have swelled into multi hundred million dollar asks, turning what used to be routine building upgrades into big ticket neighborhood debates. Suburban districts and the Detroit Public Schools Community District are putting sweeping construction, replacement, and safety projects in front of voters as aging systems and years of deferred…

Arielle Tozier de la Poterie, a parent of a student at César Chávez School in North Portland, spends her day job working in international disaster risk reduction. So she’s familiar with the risk of schools collapsing on children during an earthquake. For Tozier de la Poterie, the seismic risk of many buildings in Portland Public…

Schools in rural Alaska are in far worse condition than Mt. Edgecumbe High School, which recently made headlines for “deplorable” conditions, a Northwest Arctic Borough official told lawmakers Wednesday, describing schools operating without functioning heating controls, fire alarms, or water and sewer systems. “There are a hundred Mount Edgecumbes out there,” Craig McConnell, President of…

Three years ago, Tanisha Salary went out of her way to choose Cleveland schools for her son CJ.  The Salary family lives in Euclid, which is not part of the Cleveland Metropolitan School District (CMSD). CJ attended a combination of Euclid City Schools and Catholic schools for elementary school. When it came time to pick…