Report finds massive under-investment in nation’s school buildings

The nation is spending $46 billion less each year on school construction and maintenance than is necessary to ensure safe and healthy facilities, according to estimates in a new report.

The study, released by a group that advocates for environmentally-sound buildings, is meant to draw attention to the condition of buildings that on weekdays house some 56 million students and teachers — more than one-sixth of the U.S. population — but that nevertheless attract little attention in the national debate over education policy and reform...

...Among the states that do not contribute to school construction is Michigan, where Detroit has struggled so mightily to maintain healthy and safe buildings. Others are Wisconsin, Indiana, Oregon and Nevada.

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Ken Notes: Wisconsin actually does an OK job here. In fact many schools have recently improved their infrastructures. We do have funding discrepancies that need to be addressed but we can get this done if we work at it...