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The Center for School Mold Help is concerned that this Stimulus Package be administered in an unprecedented, most responsible manner - that any school repair funds are provided with full oversight, ensuring that schools with a history of leaks and/or mold are remediated properly during the repairs, so that mold problems do not spread and make the occupants sicker. Just fixing leaks will not solve mold problems. Dry mold is just as toxic and more easily airborne than wet mold, though it is dormant and cannot grow. We encourage our site visitors to express similar concerns about the use of these school repair funds to your Congressional representatives. (SMH)
How the Stimulus Package Breaks Down:
"Education
•$54 billion in state fiscal relief to prevent cuts in state aid to school districts, with up to $10 billion for school repair; $26 billion to school districts to fund special education and the No Child Left Behind law for students in K-12; $17 billion to boost the maximum Pell Grant by $500 to $5,350; $2 billion for Head Start." (USA Today, Feb. 15, 2009)
Read several articles from USA Today and the Cornell Daily Sun, Ithaca, NY, below
Read what the American Federation of Teachers has to say about it...
State Governors may allocate funds for repair of school buildings (see below):
"IN GENERAL.-The Governor shall use 18.2 percent of the State's allocation
under section 14001 for public safety and other government services,
which may include assistance for elementary, and secondary education and
public institutions of higher education and for-modernization,
renovation, or repair of public school facilities and institutions of
higher education facilities, including modernization, renovation, and
repairs that are consistent with a recognized green building rating
system." (TITLE XIV)
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Angela Page and John Webber, both of Liberty, were married at the WJFF radio station on Valentine's Day. The station and all guests were required to be fragrance-free because Page has a neurotoxic condition that has caused her to be highly allergic to scents.(Adam Bosch / Times Herald-Record)
Angela Page, a disabled NY schoolteacher, librarian, mold-activist, and talented folk music radio host, married her longtime love, John Webber, yesterday. Angie, a former Center for School Mold Help board member, is featured on our Real Testimonies page. (SMH)
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Attention: people disabled by mold and chemical exposures: Effective Jan. 1, 2009, The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) has been expanded to strengthen the protection for people with disabilities. This may heavily impact schools with sick and disabled children in them and workplaces with sick and disabled employees, as well as what rights they have if they become totally disabled. (SMH). "The law overturns several Supreme Court decisions and makes clear Congress's intent that the term "disability" should be interpreted more broadly by employers and courts." (Lisa Guerin, J.D)
Parents, if your child has any medical condition (old or new), you may now investigate requesting an accommodation based on your physician's evaluation - based on this new amendment to the ADA - ie. an immediate change to a non-water-damaged classroom or building in your school, school district, or a neighboring school district. Teachers and school staff who may now be considered as having disabilities under this new amendment, if you want an accommodation based on a medical reaction to a water-damaged room, read this law, below. See our Resources-Medical section for physicians familiar with mold-related illnesses, if you don't have one in your immediate area (SMH).
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