This monograph addresses the issues surrounding financing school buildings. Kansas finances school buildings from the property tax base of the school district in which the building is located. Local districts face fiscal constraints in maintaining and building facilities. The backlog of maintenance in Kansas exceeds $380 million. Research in Kansas indicates that inequities in facilities will widen among its 304 school districts, 80 percent of which are rural. Many other states finance facilities by providing grants to local districts. The monograph evaluates the legal potential for state responsibility to aid facilities in Kansas and provides recommendations for state involvement. It describes court litigation in Kansas and other states involving the issue of facilities funding. The recommendations are based solidly in research, practice, and conservative extensions of legal principles. If research shows a relationship between facility adequacy and instructional outcomes, then courts will likely follow with mandates that the states bring their school buildings into compliance with predetermined minimum standards for describing adequacy for instructional facilities. The document includes tables on such data as: (1) age of buildings; (2) condition of buildings; (3) financial data on districts; (4) tax base of districts; (5) capital outlay; and (6) bonded indebtedness and capital outlay plans. This monograph contains 95 references. (KS)