Iowa
Des Moines Register - July 8, 2025
Des Moines Public Schools officials are moving forward with a scaled-back plan designed to overhaul Iowa's largest district — one that is millions of dollars less than the initial proposal. The new $265 million plan reduces the number of proposed new schools being built from three to one, slates three schools for closure instead of…
Massachusetts
Athol Daily News - June 13, 2025
In an effort to show the need for a new or renovated Athol High School, officials held a tour while outlining the process, which begins with a feasibility study. Athol Royalston Regional School District Superintendent Matt Ehrenworth, district Facilities Director T.J. Mallet and Athol High School Principal David King met with officials from Athol and…
Arkansas
Arkansas Democrat Gazette - June 8, 2025
The North Little Rock School Board could settle on an official site plan for the district’s new middle school as soon as Thursday. The middle school project, which is estimated to cost $68 million by the time of completion, is being funded with $20.8 million in state partnership funding and $70 million generated from a…
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Georgia
Atlanta News First - May 19, 2025
Atlanta Public Schools wants to make schools more modernized and safer for students, staff and community. The district has started to outline a “Comprehensive Long-Range Facilities Plan,” for the next 10 to 15 years. The goal is student success, from facility use, to safety and possibly rezoning some school facilities. National school research company HPM…
New Mexico
Roswell Daily Record - April 29, 2025
A new structure that would house all the students in Santa Rosa public schools from pre-kindergarten to high school senior is the recommendation of the Facilities Master Plan committee. The committee’s five-year plan received unanimous approval on April 16 from the Santa Rosa Consolidated Schools District board and now awaits approval from the state Public…
Michigan
Michigan Department of Education - April 21, 2025
A nearly $23 billion investment is necessary to carry out much-needed infrastructure work in schools across Michigan over 10 years, according to a recent presentation to the State Board of Education. The report, produced by Plante Moran Realpoint and in collaboration with Barton Malow Builders, overseen by the School Finance Research Foundation, focuses on school…
Ohio
WDTN.com - March 20, 2025
With school buildings going on 70 years or older, Kettering City Schools has been working with state officials and contractors to create a plan to address the aging infrastructure. On Thursday night, officials unveiled their plans during a public forum, sharing some pretty big changes in the works, including both potential renovations and demolitions to…
Oklahoma
EdSurge - March 17, 2025
Several years ago, Oklahoma City Public Schools shuttered more than a dozen of its school buildings. It was part of a realignment process in the district to right-size student populations within schools — some were overcrowded, others were underenrolled — and to make the school experience better and more consistent for students across the city.…
Colorado
Jeffco Transcript - March 11, 2025
Jeffco Public Schools staff has recommended that the school board vote to surplus three former school sites and one vacant land site at its March 13 meeting. If approved, the district will move forward with its property disposition process to determine the future of the sites. According to the district’s website, “the board must vote…