NCSF Calls for Rebuilding America's School Infrastructure

The Council joined a non-partisan coalition advocating for a federal investment in America's public K-12 school facilities, called the Build America’s School Infrastructure Coalition (BASIC). At the 2016 NCSF annual meeting, state school-facilities leaders from 25 states passed a resolution calling for “PK-12 public school buildings and grounds [to] be included in federal programs to address infrastructure needs."

Since 2016, many of our state school facilities officials have visited Congressional offices to educate representatives about the conditions of our public school facilities. They shared with them state level data on school facility spending and investments, and the needs for additional funding to address the inequitable conditions in our nation’s public school facility infrastructure.

American Rescue Plan Funding for State, Municipalities and K-12 Education

This interactive map is designed to help communities and districts understand the scale of new federal funding and encourage the planning and engagement to apply at least 20% of these funds to improve our public school buildings and grounds. The sources of data used for this map are the U.S. Department of Education and the U.S. Treasury Department.