July 09, 2009


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Aid for Facilities 

By Mike Kennedy (mkennedy@asumag.com)

Economic stimulus funds from the federal government provide numerous avenues for schools and universities to improve facilities....

Impact Aid Available from U.S. Education Department 

The U.S. Department of Education has made $108.8 million in funding available for targeted students and communities....

Interior Funds Will Improve Indian Tribes' School Facilities 

The U.S. Department of the Interior is allocating more than $277 million for school construction, repairs and improvements for Indian tribes across the nation....

House Committee Passes Bill Supporting Green School Construction 

The U.S. House Education and Labor Committee once again has passed the 21st Century Green High Performing Public School Facilities Act....

Recovery Funds for Schools 

Funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act available from the U.S. Department of Education as of May 1, 2009....

M&O expenditures over the past 20 years 

Additional information from the 38th annual Maintenance & Operations Cost Study for Schools and Colleges, including spending by school districts on maintenance and operations as a percentage of total district expenditures over the past two decades....

Amount spent annually on transportation 

Additional information from the 38th Annual Maintenance & Operations Cost Study for Schools and Colleges, including the median cost of transportation per student and as a percentage of total district expenditures....

Salary data for custodial and maintenance personnel 

Additional information from the 38th Annual Maintenance & Operations Cost Study for Schools and Colleges, including the median salary for custodial and maintenance personnel at school districts....

Number of full-time maintenance, custodial and grounds staff 

Additional information from the 38th Annual Maintenance & Operations Cost Study for Schools and Colleges, including the mean number of full-time custodial, maintenance and grounds personnel at school districts....

Median amount of square feet and acreage maintained 

Additional information from the 38th Annual Maintenance & Operations Cost Study for Schools and Colleges, including square feet of buidings maintained per student, square feet maintained per custodial employee, square feet maintained per maintenance employee, acres maintained per grounds employee, and total reported maintenance & operations budget....

M&O expenditures over the past 10 years 

Additional information from the 38th annual Maintenance & Operations Cost Study for Schools and Colleges, including spending by colleges on maintenance and operations as a percentage of total college expenditures over the past 10 years....

M&O salaries and number of employees 

Additional information from the 38th Annual Maintenance & Operations Cost Study for Schools and Colleges, including the median M&O salaries and number of employees at colleges...

More Schools M&O data 

Additional information from the 38th Annual Maintenance & Operations Cost Study for Schools and Colleges, including the number of students, total M&O expenditure, amount spent annually on energy (gas, electricity and other fuels), number of buildings, amount spent annually on transportation, and amount spent annually on custodial and maintenance supplies by responding school districts....

More Colleges M&O data 

Additional information from the 38th Annual Maintenance & Operations Cost Study for Schools and Colleges, including the mean FTE enrollment of survey respondents, total M&O expenditure, square feet maintained per custodian, square feet maintained per maintenance worker, square feet of building maintained per student, amount spent annually on energy (gas, electricity and other fuels), and number of motor vehicles by responding colleges....

38th Annual Maintenance & Operations Cost Study for Colleges 

By Joe Agron (jagron@asumag.com)

The nation's colleges are feeling the pinch of the economic downturn, and maintenance and operations budgets especially are under pressure....

38th Annual Maintenance & Operations Cost Study for Schools 

By Joe Agron (jagron@asumag.com)

Despite the worst economic environment in generations, spending by K-12 institutions on maintenance and operations held its own — defying historical trends that have shown M&O spending among the most affected in times of budget tightening....

Green Cleaning: On Schedule 

By Stephen Ashkin

How does a four-day work week affect the environment? A few ways: drastic reductions in crude-oil imports, greenhouse-gas emissions, employee exposure to pollutants, traffic congestion and auto accidents....

Bucks for Bonds 

By Joe Agron (jagron@asumag.com)

Tucked away in the recently enacted economic stimulus bill is a potential boon for school construction....

Stimulus Tug of War 

By Joe Agron (jagron@asumag.com)

When the dust cleared and the compromise economic stimulus package was finalized, school construction funding lost....

Lucrative Partnerships 

By Stephen Halliday

The economic debacle of September 2008 left in its wake major economic losses at both corporate and personal finance levels. Equally disturbing, a looming...

Big Plans 

By Joe Agron (jagron@asumag.com)

For many of us, 2008 was a year we were glad to see end. As 2009 begins, the country finds itself embroiled in an economic crisis not seen in generations...

Missing in Action 

Joe Agron

Once a cornerstone of presidential campaigns, education finds itself at the back of the class in this year's election....

Election '08 

By Mike Kennedy

Candidates stake out positions on improving schools, but other issues take precedence....

Nationwide Buying Power 

More than 32,000 public agencies, including thousands of schools and universities, have saved money and streamlined their purchasing processes....

System upgrade cuts through bureaucracy 

The Volusia County (Fla.) school district's enhancement of its online purchasing system....

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Essential Reading

The Subtle Stuff

Vikas Nagardeolekar and Edwin Merritt

It's hard to win passage of a school construction bond — whether through a citizen referendum or the vote of a town council or general town meeting.

Hear and Now

Michael McKeon and Lincoln Berry

When acoustics are mentioned with regard to schools, many people first think of performing arts.

Making it Readable

Peter Gisolfi

When my daughter was 10 years old, she left the comfort of her elementary school for the unfamiliar territory of the middle/high school building — a crazy quilt of pieces from the 1910s, 1930s, 1960s and 1970s.

Echo Boom Impact

Phillipe Dordai and Joseph Rizzo

Like their baby-boomer parents, the echo-boom generation is reshaping the college and university landscape.

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