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вЂњIn light of the omission in funding for school facilities, it is critical districts have more time to leverage their American Rescue Plan investment to re-build and construct safer, healthier school environments. Members of Congress cannot keep punting on funding the second largest infrastructure sector in the country and claim they want global competitiveness, high quality educators and equitable academic outcomes for students of color. Yet, according to the 2021 State of Our Schools Report, school district facilities are being underinvested at the rate of $85 billion a year.

вЂњThis is the not the first-time schools have been excluded from a major infrastructure bill we saw this happen 12 years ago with the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARAA) in 2009.

We understand the importance and reality of compromise and coming together to get a bill over the finish line, but we are deeply disappointed to find not a dollar allocated to school facilities despite President BidenвЂ™s campaign promise to fund $100 billion for new school facilities and House Democrats inclusion of $82 billion for this purpose in their bill. вЂњSuperintendents understand the complexity of negotiation and that frequently a deal that no one likes is the deal that gets done.

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вЂњWe are grateful for the billвЂ™s many investments that will better the lives of K-12 students and educators.В However, BBB also represents a significant missed opportunity: The absence of $100 billion in grant funding to build new school facilities in high-poverty communities and ensure children in America can attend public schools free of lead, mold, asbestos and with working bathrooms, heating and air-conditioning systems, leak-proof roofs and functioning windows, among other things.

The continued commitment to closing the homework gap.

Expanding districtsвЂ™ ability to offer free meals and enable millions more students to access nutritious meals at school, and.

Building an adequate educator pipeline to avoid future staffing shortages.

Early childhood and pre-K programs that will ensure that children begin kindergarten ready and able to learn.

вЂњSpecifically, we support provisions of the bill that would invest in: AASA is appreciative of the many ways it will support the work our members do in educating the nationsвЂ™ K-12 public school students. вЂњBuild Back Better is an historic investment in education. * AASA Statement on the Bill: In response to the release of the DemocratsвЂ™ reconciliation bill known as the Build Back Better Act, AASA, The School Superintendents Association, issued the following response. Read the rest of the story: вЂњNo Federal Infrastructure Money? Not OK, Says a Superintendent With Century-Old BuildingsвЂќ (from Education Week, 10/29/21). That means the wait for the first substantial federal investment in school buildings since the Great Depression will be even longer for administrators. A White House framework for the investment package includes universal pre-K, teacher pipeline programs, expanded free school meals, and expanded access to home broadband for K-12 students-but nothing to improve the nationвЂ™s school buildings, many of which are in major disrepair. A massive spending package still making its way through Congress likely wonвЂ™t include federal funding to improve school buildings, nearly seven months after President Biden proposed $100 billion in grants and bondsВ to fix the nationвЂ™s K-12 facilities. * School Infrastructure: School district leaders who have dealt for years with a backlog of urgent maintenance and renovation needs for their school buildings were dealt a blow last week from the federal government. Click here for a list of other recent updates.ДЇederal Spending Bill: Build Back Better Act вЂ“