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The Prince George’s County (Md.) district is spending up to $1 million a year to install voice amplification systems in every classroom, The Washington Post reports. Teachers wear infrared microphones that raise the volume and clarity of teachers’ voices above the distracting buzz of competing noises. But some advocates for better classroom acoustics say that […]

The Recovery District in New Orleans plans to demolish 47 schools in parts of city heavily damaged after Hurricane Katrina

Prankster breaks into high school and lets 85 chickens loose

Many state and governments are mandating that schools and universities incorporate green design and construction standards into their facility projects. Do you think green construction should be required, or do you think schools and universities should have the option to set their own standards?
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…I’d take it to Las Vegas and get a job in school construction. The Las Vegas Review-Journal reports that the Clark County (Nev.) district, which consists of Las Vegas and surrounding communities, has just unveiled its projected construction needs through 2018: 73 schools! That’s in addition to the 101 new schools and 11 replacement schools […]

In North Carolina today, U.S. Transportation Secretary Mary E. Peters announced a proposal to mandate the installation of safety belts in small school buses have and to require that all school buses have higher seat backs. However, the government is not proposing a safety-belt requirement on larger buses. Peters says the three-point safety belts are […]

An article from The Baltimore Sun provides some insight into what can happen to a facility victimized by deferred maintenance and an apathetic school community.
Miko Baldwin took a recent day off from work to help out in the office at Woodlawn High School in Gwynn Oak, Md., and discovered something that stunned her: the […]

The Los Angeles Unified School District is moving forward with plans to impose fees on nonprofit youth groups who use district classrooms, gyms and athletic field, according to The Los Angeles Times. District officials say that budget woes are forcing them to end the practice of letting those groups use school facilities at no […]

Outdoor basketball courts at a Brown Deer, Wis., middle school have been rendered unusable this summer because the district has blocked the rims with anti-auto-theft devices–a.ka. “The Club.”
Officials told The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel they acted because a robbery and other “troubling” incidents at the courts, while others say the action was racially motivated because […]