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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…

Hundreds of schools, child cares, parks and other care facilities around San Diego County are located near idle oil wells, which can emit toxic gases, a new study finds. They’re among the nearly 4,500 wells statewide that an analysis of state data by the Center for Biological Diversity found are within 3,200 feet of such…

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…

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…

Maine’s long-running school construction crisis may finally have a roadmap. A state commission that has spent more than a year studying how Maine builds and renovates public schools released its final report Friday, calling for a major shift in how the state plans, funds and manages school construction projects. Last year, the Governor’s Commission on…

Vermont school districts are more than $480 million in debt from the costs of renovating school buildings, according to data from the State Aid for School Construction Advisory Board. That might sound pretty steep, but experts say it’s not necessarily a bad thing. Vermont has some of the oldest school building stock in the country.…

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…

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…

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…

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…