2009 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 10:29:18 -0800 (PST)
Reply: cpeo-brownfields
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] School Siting Practices in New Jersey
 
New Schools, New Sites - in Older Cities: School Siting Practices in New Jersey

Robert Hersh
November 2009

New Jersey's school building program and its efforts to improve public education for poor children has been one of the most ambitious in the nation. It has dealt head on with the lack of coordination between school districts and municipalities, school funding for impoverished communities, aligning economic development concerns with community centered schools, identifying sites and building schools in densely populated neighborhoods, and addressing school site contamination. With such an ambitious and large-scale program, it is not surprising that New Jersey has had it share of successes and failures.


To download the 18-page, 1.5 MB PDF, go to
http://www.cpeo.org/pubs/NJSchools.pdf

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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