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Building Educational Success Together
(BEST)
The 21st Century School Fund launched the Building
Educational Success Together initiative to improve
the quality of school facilities in urban communities.
We will work to build a policy infrastructure that:
- Integrates community involvement into facility
planning;
- Provides for the design and operation of schools
for community use;
- Requires effective and efficient management and
oversight of facility planning, design, construction,
modernization, and maintenance; and
- Ensures that funding for capital improvements
and maintenance is available and equitably distributed.
Our efforts are focused on eight cities - Washington,
DC; Chicago, IL; Newark, Trenton and Paterson, NJ;
and Cleveland, Columbus, and Cincinnati, OH - as well
as the development of research, publications and organizing
tools useful across the country.
The BEST initiative is supported by the Ford Foundation
as part of its commitment to educational excellence
and equity.
This past year, NCBG and 21st Century School Fund
worked with our research partner, Dr. Mark Schneider,
of State University of New York—Stony Brook,
to develop and undertake a “Teachers & School
Facilities” Study that asked active, classroom
teachers to learn and document firsthand: 1) If facilities
were important to teaching, and 2) Assess the adequacy
of school conditions and school design as experienced
by teachers.
See more about the study.
For further information, please view these documents:
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