Alaska
Anchorage Daily News - August 1, 2025
When Alaska House Speaker Bryce Edgmon toured the public school in Sleetmute last fall, he called the building “the poster child” for what’s wrong with the way the state pays to build and maintain schools. The tiny community 240 miles west of Anchorage had begged Alaska’s education department for nearly two decades for money to…
Maine
WGME.com - July 31, 2025
Help is on the way for a few of Maine’s aging school buildings. The Maine Department of Education recently released its list of priority schools in need of major upgrades. The top names on the list are likely to get state money for a new or improved school. The superintendent in Old Orchard Beach says…
Montana
Clark Fork Valley Press - July 30, 2025
Counties in Montana will receive $46.5 million in federal payments this year to cover a lack of property tax revenue coming from federal lands. The payments are part of more than $644.8 million that will be distributed to 1,900 state and local governments this year. According to the Association of Montana Counties, this is the…
Colorado
The Denver Gazette - July 8, 2025
The attorney challenging the Denver Public Schools district’s financing structure requested a court hearing to determine whether the Denver School Facilities Leasing Corp. is a “public entity” as district officials have claimed. They have asserted in court documents that the Denver School Facilities Leasing Corp., as a public entity, is entitled to governmental immunity from…
Vermont
Valley News - July 4, 2025
Gov. Phil Scott on Tuesday signed a landmark education reform bill into law, laying the groundwork for a historic transformation of Vermont’s public education system. “While this session was long and difficult and uncomfortable for some, we were able to come together and chart a path towards a system that better serves our kids and…
Hawaii
Honolulu Civil Beat - July 3, 2025
At Kealakehe Elementary School on the Big Island, functioning bathrooms are hard to find. Students travel across campus to reach working toilets — sometimes resulting in embarrassing accidents — and poor plumbing has led to sewage leaking through classroom ceilings, according to more than a dozen pages of testimony from parents and teachers at a…
Michigan
FOX47 - June 24, 2025
A study released earlier this year by the school finance research foundation says statewide infrastructure needs for schools add up to more than $20 billion. Michigan schools face more than $20 billion in infrastructure needs, according to a recent study. Both House Republicans and Senate Democrats have proposed one-time funding plans to address critical school…
West Virginia
Metro News - June 23, 2025
The state School Building Authority awarded approximately $20 million for Major Improvement Projects (MIP) in 18 West Virginia counties during a meeting Monday in Charleston. SBA Executive Director Andy Neptune said they were able to increase the original amount of money available after some previous projects came in under budget. “We were excited that we…
Colorado
The Gazette - June 23, 2025
Multiple El Paso County schools will benefit from this year’s round of grant awards from the Colorado Department of Education’s annual Building Excellent Schools Today (BEST) program. School districts Harrison D-2, Widefield D-3 and Peyton School District 23-JT, along with the charter Mountain Song Community School, are among the 14 recipients for the state grant…
Hawaii
Hawaii News Now - June 20, 2025
State lawmakers have rejected more than a billion dollars in school construction projects, including a replacement for the elementary school destroyed in the Lahaina fire. State Senate Ways and Means chair Donovan Dela Cruz says the Hawaii Department of Education was demanding too much and needs to be more efficient with what it does get.…