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Facilities
Buildings Can Serve the Whole Community
School Facilities: Resources and Connections
The Rural Trust works with many small rural towns and counties in which the school remains the center of the community. In many more communities, however, those neighborhood schools were closed and consolidated facilities built elsewhere in the misguided belief that larger schools would educate students more effectively at a lower cost. Even where the schools remain vitally linked to their surrounding communities, there is often insufficient funding to maintain or renovate them and money for new construction is still linked to consolidation.
The Rural School and Community Trust recognizes the challenge and the promise we face in creating facilities that serve schools and communities. To meet that challenge we have started a network of people working to improve school-community facilities, to increase community participation in the facilities design process, and to expand the purposes these public resources can serve. We invite you to join this network and hope that you will find the resources listed below useful.
Please contact Barbara Lawrence, coordinator of the school facilities network, for more information.
RESEARCH
June 03 - Rural School Facilities: State Policies that Provide Students with an Environment to Promote Learning (PDF file, 118Kb)
Dec 03 - Land for Granted: The Effects of Acreage Policies on Rural Schools and Communities (PDF file, 98Kb)
Save a Penny, Lose a School: The Real Cost of Deferred Maintenance (PDF format)
Sep 02 - Dollars and Sense: Small Schools Work and They're Cost Effective
May 02 - The Future of School Facilities: Getting Ahead of the Curve (DeArmond, Haggart & Hill)
Jan 01 - Historic Neighborhood Schools in the Age of Sprawl: Why Johnny Can't Walk to School
Nov 00 - Commercialism in Schools
Jul 00 - Grains of Salt: Three Reports on the Condition of School Facilities
Apr 00 - Schools as Centers of Community: A Citizens Guide For Planning and Design
Dec 99 - Improving Rural School Facilities for Teaching and Learning (S. Dewees/ERIC Digest)
Mar 98 - The Log School: A Case for Appropriate Design; from Alaska Native Knowledge Network
Policy Issues Concerning School Facilities
Whatever Happened to Pauley vs. Bailey, The Story of the Politics of Education in West Virginia
Creating Schools as Centers of Community: A workshop held in New Orleans, Louisiana, June 15 - 18, 2000 (PDF format)
LINKS
California's Coalition for Adequate School Housing
Coalition for School Funding Now
Concordia Architects
National Clearinghouse on Educational Facilities
National Trust for Historic Preservation
Renovation Funding from the U.S. Department of Education
Small Schools Workshop
USDE Qualified Zone Academy Bonds
Oct 03 - New Facilities Facts
Jul 03 - Americans Favor National School Rebuilding Program
Jul 03 - OCRE Urges Rural Schools to Use, Support QZABs
Jun 03 - Harlan County, Kentucky School Board Wants To Waive Vote Requirement
Apr 03 - Rural Youth Take Action on School Funding and Facilities in Ohio
Apr 03 - An Old School Is Given New Life
Apr 03 - What Does It Take to Build an Ideal School?
Nov 02 - Rural Schools Score Major Victory in Arkansas Supreme Court
Aug 02 - Closing Costs: School Consolidation in West Virginia
May 02 - Lowering the Overhead by Raising the Roof
Apr 02 - Idaho Facing Facilities Crisis: Poor or Dangerous Conditions Highlighted in Lawsuit
Oct 01 - McClain High School Renovation Wins National Award
Apr 01 - Equal Facilities Funding in Alaska: Court Rules for Rural, Native Children
Mar 01 - Unequal and Inadequate: Funding Litigants Eyeing Facilities Issues
Feb 01 - Renovating Schools: Love 'em or leave 'em
Jan 01 - Worth Waiting For? Federal Support for School Repair
Dec 00 - Idaho Addresses Key Issues
Dec 00 - Ohio Finance Litigation: Winning Isn't Everything
Nov 00 - California Suit Addresses State Responsibilities
Aug 00 - Court Upholds Community School Closure: Allegany County, MD Activists Change Focus
Jun 00 - Ohio Supreme Court Ruling: Reliance on Property Tax Not Sufficient
Jun 00 - Playing Monopoly with Alaska's School Facilities
Jan 00 - Rural Schools in the North: A Case For Appropriate Design
Oct 99 - Former Secretary of Education Riley's October 1999 Speech on Schools as Centers of Community
Oct 99 - What Does it Really Cost to Graduate a High School Student?
Aug 99 - Housing Development and Re-segregation
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