Let's explore the sources and consequences of the iron grip school districts typically enjoy over the financing, development, ownership, and
deployment of public school facilities — and some promising strategies for breaking it.
They are the same people who fight nondenominational prayers in public schools, the
use of public school facilities for meetings of high school religious - interest groups, and state support of private schools.
The federal government's reports on the deteriorating
state of public school facilities, most notably a 1995 report from the General Accounting Office (now the Government Accountability Office), brought increased attention to the need to invest in education infrastructure.
«He has helped obtain national attention to the
plight of public school facilities, as well as motivate our state government to move toward providing facilities funding.»
In addition to Stamford, the firm's reach extends from New Haven to Waterbury and Barbarotta's hometown of Trumbull, with AFB managing 11 million square
feet of public school facilities throughout the state and hundreds of acres of parks and beaches.
The Court of Appeal, however, said that the regulations were properly read as requiring the school district to provide its facilities to charter schools in a manner that will promote Proposition 39's
intent of public school facilities being shared fairly among all pupils, including those in charter schools.
``, Smith explores «the sources and consequences of the iron grip school districts typically enjoy over the financing, development, ownership, and
deployment of public school facilities — and some promising strategies for breaking it.»