WEAC and the WFT support a federal, state, and local partnership to modernize public schools. Data on schools must be collected to support effective modernization policies. School modernization efforts that systematically collect, analyze, and report data about public school buildings are as important as collecting information about test scores, student enrollment, per pupil expenditures and state aids. These buildings have an enrollment of nearly 75,000 students whose lives are affected on a daily basis by substandard facilities. 3.1 percentage points.
Education is viewed as the number one priority for next year's federal budget.