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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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