District of Columbia Makes Major Investments in its Neighborhood Public School Facilities

After decades of neglect of its PS-12 facilities, beginning in 1994-under community pressure and with technical assistance from the 21st Century School Fund, the District of Columbia started planning for the full modernization of all of its public school facilities. Facilities initiatives started with major repair “blitzes” and then building “stabilization”, in 2000, and, finally, it began a multi-billion dollar initiative to modernize or replace every District of Columbia Public School (DCPS) building, including making major improvements to schoolyards, athletic facilities and grounds.

By August 2015, 77 of the 108 active DCPS school buildings have meet high quality and modern standards for health, safety and educational spaces.  Fully 42 of the DCPS schools are new or completely modernized-more than a third of the total.  An additional 35 buildings have received phased modernizations ranging in scope from extensive classroom modernizations and small additions to full modernizations of entire wings. The remaining 31 schools have been fully stabilized to ensure that they are clean, safe, well lighted, heated and cooled, and fitted with serviceable technology and playground equipment.  View the

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