This article talks about how the Los Angeles Community College District (LACCD) embraced a precedent-setting green policy that would forever change its approach to education. The "greenprint" for how environmental design and construction could be done mandates that all new buildings funded with at least half of the funds from its $2.2…

A comprehensive analysis is presented of the cost of a schoolhouse and the processes of planning and financing it. In focusing on the elements of school building costs, cosideration is given to approaches to school construction and financing in other countries and to the historical evolution of schoolhouse design in the U.S. An analysis is…

The survey of the school system of Alexandria, Virginia, was made in May, 1923, by the United States Commissioner of Education upon the invitation of the Board of Education of Alexandria and of the State superintendent of public instruction of Virginia. Members of the survey staff during the three weeks of field work visited the schools, made…

The Coalition for Adequate School Housing has developed a set of proposals for a new statewide school construction program. Lists 12 concepts that are the basis of the program. (MLF)