SCHOOL CONSTRUCTION

WHEREAS, the growing lack of school and classroom space makes it impossible to implement many of the educational improvements contained in union contracts, and/or provided for by government grants; and

WHEREAS, the failure to provide such needed school and classroom space is threatening the very existence, as an effective institution, of our free public school system; and

WHEREAS, many of the present school and classroom disturbances are a direct result of school and classroom overcrowding:

RESOLVED, that the AFT and all its affiliates give the higher priority to the problem of school construction; and

RESOLVED, that the Executive Council at its post convention sessions, or soon thereafter, prepare a plan of action to focus national attention on the need for school construction and to obtain nationwide support for a campaign to compel the national government to provide the needed financial assistance to local and state bodies so that a massive coordinated school construction program can be started, for all school levels, by all appropriate government agencies.