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When students and staff walk the halls of Little Falls Community High School each day, they see lockers, classrooms and familiar corridors. What they don’t see is a mechanical system that has been quietly working and straining for more than half a century. Constructed in 1972, the high school’s heating, ventilation, electrical and plumbing systems…

Virgin Islands Education Department officials warned lawmakers Thursday at the Senate Education and Workforce Committee hearing that public schools are facing chronic absenteeism as they struggle to keep aging buildings powered, connected to the internet, and safe for students and faculty. Craig Benjamin, executive director of the Bureau of School Construction and Maintenance, said 90%…

Under the bill, $100 billion would be provided through formula grants to the states. Ninety-five percent of the funds would go to districts based on criteria that include the poverty level of children in the school district, fiscal limitations to raise funds to improve facilities and the severity of the facility needs. An additional $30…

Rep. Peter Conlon, D-Cornwall, the House Education Committee chair, on Thursday introduced the first concrete proposal presented this legislative session to consolidate Vermont’s dozens of school districts. The proposal would merge the state’s 119 districts — and the 52 entities that govern them — into 27 supervisory districts, each with student populations between 2,000 and…

To ensure every student and educator has access to a safe, supportive learning environment, Senate Majority Leader M. Teresa Ruiz introduced legislation that would renew New Jersey’s commitment to repairing and replacing aging school buildings across the state. “This bill marks the start of a broader conversation about how we can modernize our public schools…

The Jefferson Parish school board surprised many families in 2023 when it announced a restructuring plan due to declining enrollment and aging buildings. Several schools would be shut down, students would be sent to new campuses and a few new schools would be built. Three years later, many of the plans have come to pass.…

Ten years ago, a big crowd of Detroit teachers and their supporters marched down Jefferson Avenue toward Cobo Hall, where the annual auto show was being held, to draw national attention to the substandard conditions inside city schools. The Detroit Federation of Teachers timed another rally later that afternoon outside Cobo (now Huntington Place) to…

Cumberland County Schools is considering possibly closing eight schools as part of a long-term effort to address aging buildings and rising repair costs across the district. The discussion follows an independent school consolidation and redistricting study completed last year by MGT of America Consulting, a third-party firm hired to evaluate building conditions, enrollment trends, capacity,…

During a Yelm Community Schools (YCS) Board of Directors meeting on Thursday, Jan. 22, Chris Woods, superintendent of YCS, told board members and those in attendance that the district will be looking to pay for some expenditures with money from its capital fund in order to stay on track, financially, in its general fund. Woods,…

Could crumbling schools across Virginia soon be getting the help they need?  “We have schools that are over 100 years old, even, and what we’re worried about, the health of the student, not only mold and crumbling situations, but just the impact that it has, sitting in that classroom all day. We need to be…