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Article: Indoor Air Quality Symposium.(symposium on the air quality in school buildings)(Brief Article)
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- School Administrator
- Article date:
- October 1, 2001
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Over 350 school administrators, teachers, nurses, parents, facilities personnel, city and county mangers and public health officials met in Washington, D.C., in August to learn how to create healthier indoor air quality, in school buildings.
The Indoor Air Quality Tools For Schools (TfS) National Symposium was sponsored by the Environmental Protection Agency and a number of national associations, including AASA, committed to improving indoor air quality in the nation's schools.
According to the federal government, an estimated 50 percent of the nation's schools have indoor air quality concerns. Nearly 1 in 13 school-aged child has asthma; poor indoor air ...