From the ECS State Policy Database: Finance--Facilities - This policy database—updated weekly—is made possible by your state's fiscal support of the Education Commission of the States....

From the ECS State Policy Database: Postsecondary Finance--Facilities - This policy database—updated weekly—is made possible by your state's fiscal support of the Education Commission of the States....

Comprehensive State Facility Programs MS Word PDF - In the 2005-06 school year $54.3 billion was spent on public school facilities in the United States and an additional $16.3 billion was spent on interest on the debt from previous school facilities projects. In most states the majority of funding for school facilities comes from the individual school districts – usually through local property tax levies. Fiscal studies have shown that funding systems that rely too greatly on local school district funding can result in a vast disparity in the quantity and quality of school facilities between high- and low-wealth school districts. This ECS StateNote examines comprehensive state facility programs, those which have increased funding levels and attempted to direct more funding toward low-income/low-property-wealth school districts. (Michael Griffith and Stephanie Fonda, Education Commission of the States, January 2007)...

Capital Outlay and/or Debt Service - 50-state look at the capital outlay and debt service provisions. (NCED, January 2010)...

State Capital Spending on PK-12 School Facilities - This report examines state and federal funding for elementary and secondary public education facility construction and modernization. The 50-state look includes state profiles, and within each profile, there is a brief description. Summary charts are included. (21st Century School Fund, National Clearinghouse for Educational Facilities, November 2010)...

Building a Sustained School Facilities Remedy: Arizona's Innovative Blueprint for Capital Funding - This report analyzes Arizona's innovative process for financing and building school facilities. It summarizes the education quality litigation and remedy that led to a novel standards-based school facilities boon in Arizona. The paper documents the subsequent years of implementation, and reviews weaknesses (such as underfunding) that have emerged in the remedy. The report also evaluates the role of the courts in the Arizona experience, and examines the impact of the state’s changes to facilities financing and decisionmaking on standards, funding, accountability, public involvement and student performance.(Molly Hunter, Campaign for Educational Equity, July 2010)...