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Boston Mayor Michelle Wu and Superintendent Mary Skipper officially announced on Tuesday that they plan to close three schools, including Excel High School in South Boston, at the end of the 2025-2026 school year. Dever Elementary School and Mary Lyon Pilot High School would also close while the Winthrop and Clap elementary schools would merge.…

A San Francisco agency responsible for making sure all 259 public and private schools in the city are safe and prepared for fires and emergencies failed to inspect more than a third of them in fiscal 2017-18 — including 26 facilities the department didn’t know existed. An audit of the San Francisco Fire Department’s Bureau…

The Massachusetts School Building Authority (MSBA) has invited the Pioneer Valley Regional School District into its eligibility program for building a new school, the first major step in what could be a years-long process. The MSBA’s board of directors extended the invitation to Pioneer for Northfield Elementary School — although the district has submitted all…

If every rural school district in Nevada had the funds it needed to keep all buildings modernized, the Nye County School District would do the kind of routine but necessary maintenance it does now — just faster. The district is getting by, but it would like to do so a little more comfortably. “There are…

The United School District of Antigo is asking for the support of the Antigo City Council on a school district application to a FEMA grant program used for building natural disaster shelters. The Antigo City Council at its committee of the whole meeting on Jan. 2 discussed the request from the school district to become…

Heath City Schools recently announced it finished paying off construction bonds that will allow property owners to see a decrease in their tax bills this year. In a Facebook post, the district said the Licking County Budget Commission approved its request to call the bonds, which can occur prior to their maturity date. The district…

The potential health hazards that maintenance and engineering managers must address in K-12 schools go far beyond fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic. Managers also must deal with legionella — the cause of Legionnaire’s disease — and asbestos, which are present in facility systems and materials. Yet another threat that has existed for decades — lead…

The Kansas Attorney General’s Office blocked millions in school bond funds to a district in the state’s smallest county based on a rigid interpretation of a 2023 elections law. Voters in the Greeley County school district, headquartered in Tribune near the state’s westernmost edge, approved in May a $4.6 million school bond for renovations and…

In the coming years, several schools in Shelby County will start to look a bit different, both inside and out. But building a brand new elementary school is not in the picture. The Shelby County Public Schools Board of Education held a special meeting to discuss the details of renovations to multiple schools in the…

This CNN article from 2022 examines the growing willingness of teachers to strike, using concurrent actions in Columbus, Ohio and Philadelphia as case studies. In Columbus, facilities issues were central. The Columbus Education Association demanded functional heating and air conditioning after classrooms repeatedly reached unsafe temperatures, forcing school closures. The article situates these local disputes…