The Educational Adequacy of New Jersey Public School Facilities: Results from a Survey of Principals. 19p. 2005

Presents the results of a survey of New Jersey school principals revealing that: 1) One third of principals assigned a grade of C or below to the overall condition of their school and 10 percent assigned grades D or F. 2) 80 percent thought that their schools were educationally adequate overall, but many thought that their school came up short in meeting specific curricula needs such as science, music, and art education. 3) Many principals thought that their schools were inadequate for recruiting and retaining teachers. 4) Many principals viewed their own facilities training as inadequate. 5) The principals feel that the school facilities planning and design process excludes important stakeholders. These opinions are held more widely in the poorer school districts.

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