Federal investments ignore crucial upgrades to school facilities—and students pay the price Logan Booker and Nicolas Zerbino Friday, January 21, 2022
![An air conditioning unit, top left, was added to this sixth-grade class room upgrade at Sherwood Middle School in Columbus on September 5, 2019, as part of Operation: Fix It, the five-year, 125-million plan funded by a 2016 bond issue to repair Columbus City Schools facilities. [Kyle Robertson/Dispatch]](https://i0.wp.com/www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/2021-08-25T154105Z_597664506_MT1USATODAY16623492_RTRMADP_3_AN-AIR-CONDITIONING-UNIT-TOP-LEFT-WAS-ADDED-TO-THIS.jpg?w=234&crop=0%2C11px%2C100%2C134px&ssl=1)