With school enrollments fluctuating, educational administrators need to do a more thorough job of planning for future educational facilities. Educational specifications can provide a helpful planning foundation for the educator and the architect. The specifications should provide specific objectives that consider the teaching/learning process to…

Certain factors are examined that contribute to the utilization of middle and high school facilities in the planning stage in the School District of Philadelphia. The study addresses itself to certain factors related to the methods of rostering schools which affect utilization of facilities in an urban area. A suggested program is developed…

In this issue, which examines the use of standards in school facility planning, the introduction points out that persons involved in educational building want to know what standards are to be used for planning, designing, and utilizing educational facilities. However, there is a lack of uniformity and even the absence of standards in some cases.…

Traces how state departments of education have evolved because of external pressures; how this is related to the responsibility of departments of education with local school systems in facility planning; how this varies by state; and how issues of educational equity, maintenance needs, and capital projects may increase departments' involvement.…

This chapter of "Principles of School Business Management" reviews the extensive range of activities associated with planning for and constructing school facilities. These activities include (1) organizing the staff and organizing the task; (2) conducting long-range planning (involving the gathering of data, the development of a planning document,…

The Town of Manassas Park officially became a city in 1975. Shortly thereafter the State Board of Education certified the city as a separate school division. The general purpose of this study was to provide the newly appointed school board with data on which to base decisions regarding school facilities. Facility needs are identified and existing…

A school building constructed 10 years ago may not be relevant to what is needed in a new building today. Methodology and curriculum change rapidly, and, as a result, buildings change as do the students attending schools today. The administrators in the school system are responsible for adequately planning a new capital-improvement project and…