School Facilities: Construction Expenditures Have Grown Significantly in Recent Years

Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed construction expenditures for public school facilities, focusing on: (1) the trends since 1990 in elementary and secondary school construction expenditures and how construction expenditures were divided between land, buildings, and equipment; (2) the trends since 1990 in the amount of expenditures for elementary and secondary school construction by type of school and type of construction; and (3) what is known about the amounts and mix of state and local funding for elementary and secondary school construction.