California school facilities are chronically underfunded, with stark facility-condition and spending disparities¶

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Subclaims¶

q2 i? Nearly 75 percent of California districts do not meet annual facility investment spending standards, and nearly 40 percent of students attend schools below minimum facility standards. → Perez 2024

Evidence¶

Perez 2024¶

Perez, Alyssa. (2024). How school facilities impact student health and performance: advancing equity with green infrastructure. WestEd. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED655919

q2 · i? · review · r1

The brief reports this from a 2022 UC Berkeley study (Vincent et al.) and, separately, a 2020 PPIC analysis (Gao & Lafortune) finding nearly 40 percent of California students attend schools that do not meet minimum facility standards. It adds that facility conditions and spending show racial, ethnic, socioeconomic, and geographic disparities nationwide.

"nearly 75 percent of districts are not meeting annual facility capital renewal or maintenance and operations investment spending standards"

Discussion¶

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