How should public school facilities programs allocate limited resources to school facilities needs fairly, cost-effectively, and efficiently while taking into account facility condition, educational adequacy, and other priorities? New Mexico has developed a solution that overcomes key challenges that are common to school facilities programs across…

No school or school district is too far behind to start improving the school environment they provide their students and teachers. A green school can be a new school or an old school, and any effort to make the school healthier, more efficient and more conducive to environmental learning is a gain for all involved. In this article, the author…

Recognize we still have a massive job of educating all the critical stakeholders, especially those with administrative decision-making and fiscal responsibility. Understand the potential for LEED and CHPS to enrich the educational delivery process. Ultimately, the goal is to provide the best learning environment possible. Work to optimize the…

Facility management today is the management of increasingly complex processes with an increasing number of team members. Facility managers must become leaders. (MLF)

Describes one Canadian school district's use of an integrated Facilities Management Information System (FMIS) to help address the effective and efficient planning, building, operating, and maintaining of their schools and other Board facilities. Development of the FMIS and its demands for organizational restructuring and change in the workplace…

Offers a view of the current technologies for computer networking in schools along with cost-performance comparisons that planners need to take into account when deciding on networking systems. (MLF)