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A Back to School Special Report on the Baby Boom Echo: No End in Sight (August 19, 1999)

Figure 13. -- Comparison of need for school construction and modernization and capital outlay for schools: 1995-96

Outlay (in millions)

In a 1995 report, the General Accounting Office estimated that $112 billion was needed to upgrade and retrofit America's school buildings. According to the report, some 14 million students are enrolled in 25,000 of the nation's schools reporting extensive repair or replacement needs. In comparison, public schools spent about $28 billion on capital outlay in 1995-96.

NOTE: Need as reported in General Accounting Office report, School Facilities: Conditions of America's Schools.

SOURCE: General Accounting Office, School Facilities: Condition of America's Schools; and Digest of Education Statistics, 1998


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