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The Oak Harbor School District may seek voters’ support funding either the construction of a new elementary school or major improvements to existing school buildings.  Those are the two recommendations of the district’s Capital Facilities Advisory Committee, which reviewed data, organized physical evaluations of existing facilities and solicited community feedback to formulate potential capital projects.…

Denver Public Schools has carried more obligations than unrestricted assets since at least 2005 — limiting the district’s financial flexibility for nearly two decades, a Denver Gazette analysis of district audits has found. In practical terms, when the unrestricted net position is negative for a long time, it means most of the district’s resources are…

Starting this summer, school districts won’t be able to charge rental fees to non-school sports and organizations in excess of an hourly rate based on their own costs. A new state law passed during the 68th Wyoming Legislature allows for youth organizations, including those not officially registered as nonprofits, to rent facilities like gyms and…

The Guadalupe Union School District is settling into new facilities after expanding its campuses over the last year with a new junior high school and early learning center. The expansions aim to relieve existing overcrowding, improve learning spaces for students, and prepare for continuing growth posed in large part by projects such as the 800-home…

A bill that would require Florida’s School Districts to document their vacant land and its value to the state is gaining momentum in the Legislature. The House passed SB 824 with a vote of 84-27 on Monday. The amended bill goes back to the Senate, where it was adopted on the Senate floor last month,…

As the 68th Wyoming Legislature’s budget session draws to a close, the Select Committee on School Facilities met Thursday to outline what it will focus on for the remainder of the year to prepare for the 2027 general session. Facing the pressures of declining enrollment in some districts and a 2025 landmark court ruling that…

The Kahlotus School District is accepting bids for a major renovation project aimed at modernizing aging school buildings constructed in the late 1950s. The renovation project is being funded through a $6 million Small School Modernization Grant from the state, along with additional grant funding secured through urgent repair programs. The improvements will focus on…

In the Delmar School District, fifth through 12th grade students share almost everything. They use the same library, they eat lunch in the same cafeteria, and they use the same sports fields.  That is because Delaware’s southernmost school district only has one building, and both its middle and high school students attend classes there. The…

A judge ordered state lawmakers to properly fund school construction and maintenance in Arizona, a move that comes more than six months after he ruled that the state has unconstitutionally underfunded public schools. In a final judgment in a case that began in 2017, Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Dewain Fox wrote that state lawmakers…

Attorneys for parents and students in school districts with unsafe, unhealthy and inadequate facilities that say they can’t afford to fix asked the Alameda County Superior Court on Friday to freeze $3 billion in state funding for building repairs until the court has ruled on their lawsuit challenging the state’s funding system. The motion for…