School Security and Facilities

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Recommendations for Schools and Others Responsible for Children during a Wildfire Smoke Event

These guidelines provide recommendations for retrofitting bleachers to prevent falls from the bleachers.

The Planning Guide has been developed to help readers better understand why and how to develop, implement, and evaluate a facilities maintenance plan. 

The recommended acreages below are guidelines meant to assist school districts in planning. They do not have regulatory force.

Storage, management, and disposal of laboratory chemicals present an on-going health and safety hazard for school science departments. Many schools hold stockpiles of unused and unwanted hazardous chemicals, some of which have degraded over time to become highly hazardous. 

The information provided below is based on our understanding of Idaho Code § 33-1019 —Allocation for School Building Maintenance Required. For purposes of this document, school district means a school district or a charter school.

The scope of the update is divided into four parts and was confined to a very defined scope: (1) Estimate the 1999 cost of responding to the existing health and safety needs of school buildings as identified by the Idaho Division of Building Safety, (2) Review actions taken since 1993 by school d

2012-2013 Student-Occupied Square Footage

"The School Facilities Task Force, created jointly by the Governor and Superintendent of Public Instruction, was directed to examine Idaho’s system of funding and maintaining school facilities. The Task Force met four times and found the following: