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ELC
has released Safe and Adequate: Using Litigation
to Address Inadequate K-12 School Facilities,
a report on claims related to disparities in school
funding for school facilities. This report (July 2006)
surveys emerging trends in the scope, strategy, and
ruling of adequacy suits, focusing on the role facilities
deficiencies play in opening the door to broader scrutiny
of states' education systems.
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A
national report released in Washington D.C. highlights
New Jersey's success in chipping away at the gap in
expenditures for school construction between low and
high wealth districts. The report credits the NJ Supreme
Court's landmark Abbott v. Burke rulings as sparking
a wave of long overdue school facilities improvements
in the State's poorest communities, while simultaneously
helping suburban districts move forward with their building
projects. ELC
comments on report.
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This
report released by The NJ School Outdoor Area Working
Group under the direction of the Center for Architecture
and Building Science Research at NJIT has developed
guidelines for the design of outdoor spaces for all
schools in the state. See
NJDCA Guidelines. 
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This
PowerPoint presentation entitled Prototypes: to
Use or Not to Use, That is the Question was
developed by Laura Wernick, Vice-President of HMFH Architects,
Inc., Cambridge, MA. She was a guest speaker at the
Northest Regional Conference of the Council of Educational
Facilities Planners, International (CEFPI) in Wilmington,
DE on April 20, 2007. The use of prototypes in the design
and construction of school facilities has been a frequent
topic of discussion in New Jersey. The debate has centered
around the use of prototypes particularly in urban districts.
As this presentation concludes, prototypes are not a
"quick fix".
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In
April 2004, ELC released Breaking Ground: Rebuilding
New Jersey's Urban Schools, a report on the
history, challenges and lessons learned from implementation
of the Abbott school construction program since 1998.
The report illuminates the complex process of facilities
planning, design and construction, and will assist policy-makers
and advocates, in New Jersey and elsewhere, in their
efforts to renovate and construct educationally adequate
and community-centered public schools.
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A
report prepared by the New Jersey Work Environment Council
with input from the Healthy Schools Ad Hoc Committee
- Updated October 2007 (Members from the NJ Departments
of Community Affairs, Education, Environmental Protection,
Health and Senior Services, Labor and Workforce Development;
the NJ Schools Construction Corporation; Education Law
Center; Isles, Inc.; NJ Education Association; NJ Work
Environment Council; and NJ Environmental Federation)
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| Historic
Information |
| Chronology
of New Jersey's School Construction Program (1990 - To
Date) |
| Proposed
Amendments to the Educational Facilities Construction
and Financing Act, P.L.2000, c.72,
Alan Mallach (2006) |
| Needed:
A new approach, Joan Ponessa, Philadelphia
Inquirer, April 5, 2006 |
| How
to Fix School Construction,
David G. Sciarra, Newark Star Ledger, February 15, 2006
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| SCC
Testimony before Assembly Education Committee and Joint
Committee on the Public Schools (October 2006)
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| School
Principals Call for Facilities to Meet Curriculum Requirements
(May 10, 2004) |
| Creating
Communities of Learning: Schools and Smart Growth (April,
2004)
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| Abbott
Districts Not Prepared to Revise Facility Plans Next Year
(February, 2004) |
| NJDOE
Rules Neglect Preschool Facilities Needs (January, 2004) |
| ELC
Comments on School Construction Corporation's Proposed
Regulations on Community Provider Facilities (August 6,
2003) |
| Report
Card on the Progress of the Abbott School Construction
Program, 2003) |
| Inspector
General to Investigate Repairs to School #6 Following
a Formal Request by ELC (9/26/02) |
| 1999-2000
Cost Estimates for Renovation and New Construction of
Abbott School Facilities from the approved Long Range
Facilities Plans |
| 1999
Abbott Districts' Long Range Facilities Plans |
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Facilities
Management Guidelines (September 22, 1998) |
| A
Study of School Facilities and Recommendations for the
Abbott Districts: New Jersey Department of Education,
1997 |
| School
Facilities: A Challenge for New Jersey (1997) |
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