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.

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