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Article: INDOOR AIR QUALITY A MAJOR CONCERN FOR SCHOOLS AND PARENTS, NEW BOOK SAYS
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- August 11, 1995
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ARLINGTON, Mass., Aug. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- As kids go back to school in the Fall, parents fret about many things, but few worry about the air that their children breathe in the classrooms. Perhaps they should.
Indoor air problems have long plagued office buildings and other adult-populated workplaces, bringing us such commonly recognized terms as "sick building syndrome" and "building related illness." Only recently have experts realized that schools suffer the same problems, often with more dramatic results.
The General Accounting Office recently reported to Congress that administrators at nearly one in five schools say they have indoor air problems, ...