Federal Investments in K-12 Infrastructure Would Benefit Students across the Country

Autor/inn/en	Modaffari, Jamil; Alleyne, Akilah
Institution	Center for American Progress (CAP)
Titel	Federal Investments in K-12 Infrastructure Would Benefit Students across the Country
Quelle	(2022), (16 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	School Districts; Educational Facilities Improvement; Federal Aid; Minority Group Students; School Buildings; Kindergarten; Elementary Secondary Education; State Aid; Financial Support; Taxes; Costs; Public Schools; Educational Equity (Finance); Expenditures; Resource Allocation; Justice; Race; Physical Health; Academic Achievement; School Buses; Ventilation; Light; Acoustics; Energy Conservation; Low Income Students + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? School district; Schulbezirk; School building; Schulgebäude; Finanzielle Förderung; Abgabe; Cost; Kosten; Public school; Öffentliche Schule; Ausgaben; Ressourcenallokation; Gerechtigkeit; Rasse; Abstammung; Gesundheitszustand; Schulleistung; Schulbus; Licht; Akustik; Energieerhaltung; Energiespeicherung
Abstract	School buildings across America are crumbling. According to a 2020 report by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO), 54 percent of U.S. school districts need to update or completely replace multiple building systems in their schools. As a result of decades of underfunding school infrastructure, national spending for K-12 school buildings falls short by an estimated $85 billion annually, as reported by a 2021 analysis from the 21st Century School Fund. Over the next decade, it would cost an estimated $1.1 trillion to modernize and replace obsolete school buildings and systems. Public schools receive most of their funding from local and state government sources. Yet since public schools in communities with fewer resources generate less funding from local property taxes--the primary source of local education funding--they must rely on state and limited local funding to cover operational and capital infrastructure expenditures to upgrade school facilities. For this reason, low-income and historically under-resourced communities, which often primarily serve students of color, are left with inadequate resources to repair and modernize school buildings. The need to initiate long-term federal school infrastructure funding is therefore not only about upgrading school buildings but also addressing the long-standing, ongoing need for racial justice, environmental justice, and educational equity. This report will explore how new and expanded federal funding for school infrastructure would meaningfully benefit both students' physical health and academic success. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01