21CSF examined actual and planned capital authorization for DCPS and public charter schools for the fiscal years 1998 through 2021. We partnered in this effort with a handful of generous and skilled free-lance volunteer coders from Code for DC to bring this data and information to the public on a webpage, For Generations to Come. The Code for DC volunteers…
Read More »The 21st Century School Fund and the Center for Cities + Schools at the University of California, Berkeley, in partnership with the Center for Green Schools at the U.S. Green Building Council and the National Council on School Facilities have launched a national initiative to find solutions to the equity and adequacy gaps highlighted in their recent 2016 State of…
Read More »The Government Accountability Office (GAO) recently released, Indian Affairs: Preliminary Results Show Continued Challenges to the Oversight and Support of Education Facilities.The preliminary report focuses on the known conditions of selected Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIE) schools and how effective Indian Affairs is in supporting and overseeing BIE school facilities. GAO stresses that there are issues with the quality of data…
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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…
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