The [Re]Build America’s School Infrastructure Coalition (BASIC) is a non-partisan coalition of civic, public sector, labor, and industry associations who support federal funding to help under-served public school districts modernize and build K-12 public school facilities.

We believe that ALL children should attend healthy, safe, and educationally appropriate school facilities. It’s BASIC.

BASIC was formed in late 2016 under the leadership of the 21st Century School Fund, the National Council on School Facilities, the Center for Cities + Schools at UC Berkeley, and the Center for Green Schools @ USGBC. Expanding from the leadership team, BASIC now has a diverse coalition of civic, education, labor, and industry organizations as members. Over the last several years, with the help of an experienced government relations team, our leadership team has met with over 200 Hill offices on both sides of the aisle. BASIC has forged relationships with key House and Senate offices and organized three fly-ins for State Facility Directors from across the country. BASIC educated Hill members and staff on:

• The scale of the PK-12 public education infrastructure––over 100,000 schools in 8.1 billion gross square feet of buildings, on an estimated 2 million acres of land.

• The funding needed for good capital stewardship––the State of Our Schools 2021 documents the need for $111 billion every year in order to modernize schools and renew systems and components in our nation’s aged and neglected buildings and grounds.

• State by state data on district and state facilities expenditures for maintenance and operations, school construction capital outlay, and long-term debt of each state.