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State-by-State Building Briefs, including Guam and the District of Columbia

 Florida

  • Construction started on a new high school in Hernando County, FL and features three academic neighborhoods, an administrative and media civic center and an athletic, dining and performing arts center. (2008) (full story)

Minnesota

  • The New Richmond school district held a groundbreaking in June to start construction of a new $59.9 million high school.  (2008)

New York

  • One of the first Green Schools in the state opened this year in Washington Heights (New York City) in the new home of PS/IS 210, Manhattan.  United Federation of Teachers representatives actively lobbied to bring the Green Schools program to the school.  (2008) (For full story)

New Jersey
  • 2008 New Funding Allocation and Capitol Plan allocates $3.9 billion in funding for school construction. (2008)
  • Construction started on a new $95 million high school in Monroe Township, NJ (2008)

Oregon

  • The school board in Lowell, Ore. is considering construction of a K-12 school to replace the district's elementary and high schools, both of which are in disrepair.  The existing schools are suffering from buckling ceilings, sagging walls, shifting foundations, rotting floors and crumbling asbestos floor tiles. (2008)
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