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Following voter rejection of its $63 million, single proposition bond proposal during the November general election, the Boyd ISD board of trustees met last week to discuss alternatives to curb student overcrowding issues at the elementary school. Superintendent Tom Woody led the discussion which centered around the possibility of moving Kindergarten classes from Boyd Elementary…

The 2025 State of Our Schools report, released today by the 21st Century School Fund, International WELL Building Institute (IWBI), and the National Council on School Facilities (NCSF), shows that the U.S. now faces a $90 billion shortfall in school facility funding every single year, despite significant progress local school districts have made to ramp…

Eight more Valley schools are set to close in the coming years due to low enrollment and a funding deficit. Now, school districts are figuring out what will happen to the empty buildings. This month, the Kyrene governing board voted to close down six schools in the district, while Scottsdale Unified voted to close down…

Recorded live at MACo’s 2025 Winter Conference, this episode features an in-depth, candid conversation with Alex Donahue, Executive Director of the Interagency Commission on School Construction (IAC), on one of the most pressing challenges facing Maryland counties: school construction. Joined by MACo Executive Director Michael Sanderson, Donahue breaks down why school construction costs have risen…

The West Virginia School Building Authority (SBA) granted the wishes of 12 county projects during its final meeting of the year Monday morning, several of which are local to north central West Virginia. Topping the list is the approval of $3.5 million in awarded funds to Barbour County Schools for its recently approved consolidation project,…

A long-awaited new West Side elementary school is finally moving forward after state officials approved Pittsfield’s request to begin formal planning. On Friday, the Massachusetts School Building Authority’s Board of Directors unanimously voted to allow the city to enter a feasibility study, the next major step toward designing and constructing a new school that would…

The City of Evanston, Evanston/Skokie School District 65 and District 202 are closing in on establishing a Joint Working Group on Public Facilities and Resource Sharing that would identify collaboration opportunities between the groups and conduct long-term resource planning.  Two of the three members of the city council who sit on the City-Schools Liaison Committee…

Down a narrow staircase at Presque Isle High School, a cast iron steam boiler towers over visitors in the same place it has sat for the last six decades. Eleven presidents and tens of thousands of students ago, the boiler — and the high school — were new. They’re not anymore. But replacing the boiler…

Four separate elementary schools in Martinsville, all built before the 1960s, will soon be closed for good as the school district consolidates into a single, new elementary school building. The Metropolitan School District of Martinsville Board of Trustees will soon approve the consolidation plans which will shutter Centerton Elementary, Green Township Elementary, Poston Road Elementary…

Spring ISD's Board of Trustees approved the closure of two schools Tuesday as part of the district's broader "optimization plan" following a $13 million deficit. According to the district, Link Elementary and Dueitt Middle School, both located north of Houston, will be closed for the 2026-27 school year. The decision is part of the "District…