USGBC report finds $46 billion deficit in U.S. school funding
A new report from USGBC has found that the nation faces a projected annual shortfall of $46 billion in school funding despite significant effort on the part of local communities. The finding is part of The State of Our Schools: America’s K-12 Facilities report, released by the Center for Green Schools at the USGBC, the 21st Century School Fund, and the National Council on School Facilities.
“One out of every six people in the U.S. spends each day in a K-12 public school classroom, yet there is very little oversight over America’s public school buildings,” said Rick Fedrizzi, CEO and founding chair of USGBC. “It is totally unacceptable that there are millions of students across the country who are learning in dilapidated, obsolete, and unhealthy facilities that pose obstacles to their learning and overall wellbeing. U.S. public school infrastructure is funded through a system that is inequitably affecting our nation’s students and this has to change.”