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Pennsylvania’s School Environmental Crisis: New Findings Reveal Why ABCs Matter More Than Ever
As students across Pennsylvania head back to school this week, a sobering new report reveals that the facilities they’re learning in are far from healthy--and why the ABCs are more necessary than ever. Women for a Healthy Environment just released their comprehensive...
Introducing the Healthy School Buildings Web Platform: A New Era of School Environment Transparency
In our ongoing mission to transform the landscape of school environments, we are working on the Healthy School Buildings (HSB) informational website and web app. Building on the foundation set by the PFT Healthy Schools Tracker, this new platform represents a...
Illuminating the Path: Data Transparency and the Right to Know in Our Schools
What condition is your neighborhood school building in? Does it have any asbestos? Any rusting pipes? How old is the roof? And if you can’t answer these questions off the top of your head--because who can, really?--do you know where you would go to find the answers?...
Not Making the Grade: How Hazardous School Buildings Drag Down Student Performance
We believe that maintaining school facilities is simply the right thing to do: that adequate building conditions (ABCs) should be met in each and every school building so that students, faculty, and staff can spend their daytime hours in a space that is sufficiently...
More than Meets the Eye: Invisible Hazards in School Environments
When we think about hazardous conditions in school facilities, our minds often jump to visible dangers like slippery floors, broken windows, or dripping pipes. However, many of the most toxic conditions in schools can’t be easily seen with the naked eye. In fact,...
