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Kwok, Michael – School Business Affairs, 2009
Like homeowners with limited budgets and a long list of repairs, school districts often must make tough choices when it comes to deciding what building systems to modernize, renovate, or repair--or when to build new facilities. With $44 billion now available for states and schools under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, stimulus…
Descriptors: Educational Facilities Planning, School Business Officials, School Districts, School Buildings
Fowle, Bruce – School Business Affairs, 1993
A school expansion project should be carefully orchestrated with following steps: compiling list of everyone's perceived needs; determining what is affordable; developing program of requirements; developing a master plan; and overseeing the process. Case studies of two New York State schools (one urban and one suburban) illustrate how the location…
Descriptors: Architects, Architectural Programing, Cost Estimates, Educational Facilities Improvement
Glass, Thomas E. – School Business Affairs, 1978
Offers a selection process through which a school district will have a better chance of selecting an architect who can best assist their specific building program. (Author/MLF)
Descriptors: Architects, Competitive Selection, Construction Programs, Educational Facilities Improvement
Daly, Kevin F. – School Business Affairs, 1993
Provides examples of common administrative tasks in school district offices that can be expedited using an administrative local area network (LAN). Explains how districts should develop a master plan installing a LAN. Figures display the LAN components, planning sheets, and an electrical requirement calculator chart. Discusses site preparation and…
Descriptors: Administrators, Budgets, Computer Networks, Computer Uses in Education
Splittgerber, Fred L.; And Others – School Business Affairs, 1987
To achieve computer literacy in schools, districts need to address the current role of the computer in education, answer technical questions about older equipment, and schedule staff development training. Financial planning for school computers should include alternatives for generating capital, school business partnerships, foundations, and…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Computer Literacy, Computer Uses in Education, Educational Finance
Beaudin, James A.; Sells, Jeffrey A. – School Business Affairs, 1999
Computers and other new technologies are changing how school buildings must be designed. Introduces full range of building designs that high-tech learning necessitates. Tables present unit costs for many infrastructural and network electronics components of advanced telecommunication systems now being installed in schools. A hypothetical case…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Computer Uses in Education, Cost Estimates, Educational Facilities Planning
Ruck, Gary – School Business Affairs, 1993
Three themes of change in school planning are the future school, outsourcing, and the reconstruction of existing facilities to accommodate technological and philosophical potential. Describes the technology and the house concept at a middle school and renovations at an elementary school. (MLF)
Descriptors: Architects, Cost Effectiveness, Educational Facilities Improvement, Educational Facilities Planning