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21st Century School Fund and Building Educational Success Together (BEST) (2010).

This brief report highlights initial findings related to the following questions: (1) How much disparity exists in school facility spending by state and locality?; (2) How were school facilities addressed in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009?; (3) What has happened to our nation's school facilities as s results of ARRA provisions?; and (4) Which schools and which students benefited from ARRA expenditures?

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Lindstrom, M. & Gillman, A. (2010).

Greening Early Childhood Centers, published by LISC’s Community Investment Collaborative for Kids (CICK). Greening Early Childhood Centers focuses on high-impact green design strategies that can be implemented over the long-term, as well as low-cost/no-cost ideas for physical improvements, environmental education and facilities operations that early childhood centers can undertake right away.

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Helgesen, C. (2010). 44 (4)

Fast-forward fifty years (from the 1960s) to 2010, and the question becomes, why should we consider renovating the 1960s school era buildings, especially if they maybe lacking culturally, economically and technologically from the present? Isn’t it easier to create the 2010 school model as a new facility and build what is needed from the ground up? The answer in a perfect world might be “yes,” but we don’t live in a perfect world. The cost for building a new school is generally several times more expensive than renovation and the ability to find new land within an established community and outfit that land with new infrastructure only increases the tax burden of its citizens.

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Uline, C., Wolsey, T., Tschannen-Moran, M. & Lin. C. (2010). 20

This study explored the interplay between quality facilities and school climate, charting the effects of facility conditions on student and teacher attitudes, behaviors, and performance within schools slated for renovations in a large metropolitan school district. The research applied a school leadership-building design model to explore how six characteristics of facility quality-movement, aesthetics, play of light, flexible and responsive classrooms, elbow room, and security-interact with four aspects of school climate: academic press, community engagement, teacher professionalism, and collegial leadership. Because the schools were older and participants in the research perceived them as being in great need of maintenance and repair, the school building characteristics were often described as absent qualities. The survey data revealed moderate to strong relationships between the quality of school facilities and school climate. The interviews further explicated these relationships. Two additional themes-counterbalance and equity-emerged as being significant to occupants' interactions with their current facilities. This study used a mixed-methods triangulation design data transformation model. Specifically, school climate surveys, photo interviews with students, walking tours of the school facility, and formal interviews were triangulated to obtain complementary data and a more complete understanding of the educational facility to be renovated and its impact on occupants.

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National Association of School Nurses (2010).

The National Association of School Nurses detailed a brief fact sheet for nurses of green cleaning for schools. Green cleaning for schools protects public health without harming the health of staff, building occupants and the environment. The best way to reduce cleaning chemical exposures for students and staff is to implement a cleaning for healthy schools program.

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Lunenburg, F. C. (2010). 27 (4)

A key responsibility of school administrators is facilities management. School buildings across the nation are aging and becoming a barrier to optimal learning and teaching. This results in escalating school infrastructure costs. A case can be made to renovate or build new facilities that maximize an effective learning environment. This will involve allocation of funds for building renovation or new construction. In this article I discuss these two issues: school infrastructure costs and financing new construction.

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National Collaborating Centre for Environmental Health (2010).

This report provides concepts on how to evaluate buildings, residences and other built environment for mould, in order to reduce the risk of exposure. The information presented in this report is based on a survey of guidelines and peer-reviewed literature; due to the lack of scientific evidence in this area, most guidelines are based on practical experience and common sense or on risk management principles. The research process and a summary of documents reviewed are presented in the appendix.

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Public Schools of North Carolina, State Board of Education, Department of Instruction (2010).

This document, in accordance with North Carolina's legislation direction, defined and described the educational spaces needed to support a modern, comprehensive educational program and to set minimal guidelines for types of spaces and for sizes of spaces. This resource is also intended: (1) to serve as a guide in evaluating existing facilities for functional adequacy; (2) to determine facility needs; and (3) to develop sound, long-range building plans.

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Lippman, P. C. (2010).

This paper argues in favor of challenging "best practice" generally accepted by the architectural profession by embracing a responsive design approach for creating learning environments. This approach should focus on the role of the social environment and how the physical environment may be structured to support learning.

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