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Over the past five years, several Virginia localities have generated just $119 million total from a targeted sales tax to fund school construction and maintenance, fueling calls to expand the tax statewide.

Critical Response Group, Inc. (CRG), the nation's leader in critical incident mapping data, today announced that it has been selected by the New Hampshire Department of Education (NHED) to deliver field-validated, GIS-enabled, and universally accessible mapping data for every public school across the Granite State. Awarded through a competitive statewide procurement (RFP 2026-BSF 01), the…

Montgomery Middle School in Chula Vista, California, once offered a lesson no district wants to teach: Deferred maintenance always comes due.  But what began as a response to aging facilities, water damage and displaced classrooms ultimately became one of California’s most ambitious K-12 sustainability projects. 

Critics say the Cleveland Metropolitan Schools District is breaking a law requiring that vacated school buildings be offered to charter schools. Cleveland schools say they have two years to decide what to do and are exploring options first.

Hundreds of Michigan school boards this month are mulling over the last details of their districts’ budgets for the next academic year ahead of a statutory deadline to pass them by July 1. But as budget talks drag on once again at the state level, particularly in K-12 education, there are a lot of unknowns…

The year’s landmark education reform proposal is now law. Gov. Phil Scott on Thursday signed into law H.955, the legislative session’s signature bill that launches a new but familiar round of voluntary school district mergers. The bill’s signing brings some closure to what has been a long year for educators, administrators and legislators. Or looked…

Civil engineers often think of school design as an exercise in balancing competing priorities. Safety, traffic flow, site constraints, pedestrian patterns, drainage, sports fields, and a litany of regulatory requirements are all part of the mix. Nowhere is this more true than in the exercise of designing K–12 campuses that can handle surges of activity…

Gov. Mike DeWine signed legislation lawmakers say will districts to building new schools across the state. House 479 allows the local share of building projects to be calculated on the government’s existing financial conditions rather than older property valuation and income data..

Time outside in school has been treated as a pause button: recess, a break from instruction, a chance for students to move their bodies before heading back indoors to “real learning.” That mindset no longer fits what we understand about how attention works, how children develop or what our students are carrying into classrooms every…

Warmer weather and longer days make summer the ideal time for construction and modernization projects at educational facilities. Scheduling work for the summer break minimizes disruption to the estimated 49.4 million PK-12 public school students and 9.3 million PK-12 private/charter school students nationwide.