FA
FA: FACILITIES DEVELOPMENT GOALS
The School Committee believes that any educational program is influenced greatly by the environment in which its functions. The development of a quality educational program and school facilities that help to implement the program must go hand in hand.
Therefore, it is the Committee's goal to provide the facilities need for the number of students in the school system, and to provide the king of facilities that will best support and accommodate the educational program.
In planning facilities, the Committee recognizes that capital outlay funds are limited, and that priorities must be established to make the best of the school building dollar. The Committee's first objective will be to develop a plan that eliminates overcrowding and minimizes the need for extended day programs and double sessions. Whenever possible, the cultural as well as education needs of the community will be considered in planning facility expansions.
Architects retained by the Committee are expected to plan for simplicity of design; sound economics, including low long-range maintenance costs, efficiency in energy needs, low insurance rates; high educational use; and flexibility.
Every new school which is to be constructed and every addition to an existing school or program for modernization of an existing school shall be designed or planned so as to ensure that the educational opportunities to be offered within that school following its construction or expansion or reconstruction will be available equally to all students thereof without regard to the race, color, sex, religion or national origin of any such student.
The goal of each school shall be to provide equal numbers of males and females with those facilities and conveniences within a school which are separated for reasons of privacy, e.g. Showers, locker rooms, changing rooms, toilets and laboratories. Any school to be constructed shall make such provision and any plan for the expansion or modernization of an existing school shall include whatever provision is necessary in order to achieve compliance with 603 CMR 26.07.
LEGAL REF: 603 CMR 26:07
SOURCE: Georgetown
Adopted On: November 8, 2007