Report
Forum Guide
Forum Guide to Facility Information Management: A Resource for State and Local Education Agencies
NCES
Author(s):
The National Forum on Education Statistics
Publication date:
July 2018
Publication number:
NFES 2018156
Summary
The Forum Guide to Facility Information Management: A Resource for State and Local Education Agencies helps state and local education agencies plan, design, build, use, and improve their facility information systems. It includes a review of why school facilities data matter and recommends a five-step process that an education agency can undertake to develop a robust facility information system around goals, objectives, and indicators. The document also includes selected measures of school facilities quality and offers a logical approach to organizing facility and site data elements associated with facility identification, condition, design, utilization, management, and budget and finance.