Do School FacilitiesAffect Academic Outcomes?
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On any given school day, about twenty percent of Americans spend time in a school building. The average age of our schools is close to fifty years, and studies by the U.S. General Accounting Office have documented widespread physical deficiencies in many of them. Faced with an aging building stock and growing, shifting student enrollments, states and communities are working hard to build and modernize K–12 facilities.
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