Local Governments and Schools: A Community-Oriented Approach

This guide provides local government managers with an understanding of the connections between school facility planning and local government management issues. It offers strategies for how local governments and schools can bring their respective planning efforts together to take a more community-oriented approach to schools and reach multiple community goals—educational, environmental, economic, social, and fiscal. Eight case studies illustrate how communities across the U.S. have already succeeded in collaborating to create more community-oriented schools.