Resources
Welcome to our resources page, which provides convenient links to materials that you can use to make the case for safer, healthier, and educationally appropriate school facilities.
The 2021 State of our Schools national report provides an overview of research on the impact and importance of public school facilities to education, health, the environment, communities, and resiliency. It analyzes facilities spending and investment in the years from FY09 following the great recession to FY2019.
Education Equity Requires Modern School Facilities
Invest in Resilient Public School Infrastructure
BASIC Overview
Two page framing of the challenge and the benefits
School Facilities are Community Assets
Two page framing of school facilities as community assets and how they impact health, safety, and other community issues
Adequate & Equitable U.S. PK-12 Infrastructure: Priority Actions for Systemic Reforms
BASIC hosted a webinar for Congressional Staff and coalition partners on the benefit of federal funding for our nation's public school infrastructure and the need to include school facilities in any federal infrastructure program. View the PowerPoint Slides.
American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Infrastructure Report Card: Schools
Mary Filardo, 21st Century School Fund Executive Director and BASIC Coalition Founder Testifies for PK12 Education Facilities at House Committee on Education and Labor - April 28, 2021
Center for American Progress: The Case for Federal Funding for School Infrastructure, February 2019
National Association of Secondary School Principals Position Statement: School Facilities
Bipartisan Policy Center Podcast: The Infrastructure Debate – Schools: Should the federal government include schools as part of a broader infrastructure initiative? December 21, 2018
Presentation to Congressional Staff on Our Nation’s Public School Facility Infrastructure - April 16, 2019
Public Schools and Natural Disasters: What You Need to Know, September 18, 2018