age of United States schools is 65 years. Nearly 50 percent of school buildings in the United States need significant repairs or upgrades, including clean and safe classrooms and laboratory spaces, up-to-date technology, and broad­band. Moreover, the condition of school facilities has a measurable effect on student achievement. (7) For all of these reasons, the future workforce of the United States needs safe, clean, well-equipped school facilities where, regardless of historic or current disadvantages, students can reach their full potential and learn the knowledge and skills that place students on a secure pathway to enhance the capacity of the United States to compete globally. 3. STEM education facilities