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Barnett, Claire L. – Healthy Schools Network, Inc., 2007
This paper presents a transcript of the speech delivered by the author at the US Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Hearing, Washington, DC, May 15, 2007. The author talked about how the Healthy Schools Network works to ensure that every child will have an environmentally healthy school that is clean and in good repair. The organization…
Descriptors: School Buildings, Child Health, Physical Environment, Clearinghouses
Boese, Stephen; Shaw, John – Healthy Schools Network, Inc., 2005
Students who attend schools with environmental hazards that impact indoor air quality are more likely to miss class, and therefore lose learning opportunities. Yet school environmental health and safety remains largely unregulated and there is no state or federal agency in charge of protecting children's environmental health in schools. This…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, School Safety, Public Schools, Hazardous Materials
Barnett, Claire L. – Healthy Schools Network, Inc., 2005
This report makes the case that no one is in charge of protecting children from harmful environmental exposures at school and recommends steps at the federal and in New York State to begin to address this hidden world. With information gleaned from adult occupational health experts, from new national studies and reports, and from the reports of…
Descriptors: Occupational Safety and Health, Child Health, Federal Government, School Buildings
Healthy Schools Network, Inc, 2004
This document is comprised of two reports: (1) "Science-Based Recommendations to Prevent or Reduce Potential Exposures to Biological, Chemical, and Physical Agents in Schools" by Derek G. Shendell, Claire Barnett, and Stephen Boese (supported by grants from the Rockefeller Foundation, the National Institutes of Environmental Health…
Descriptors: School Safety, Environmental Standards, Physical Environment, Environmental Influences