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IMPORTANT ALERT FOR SCHOOL DISTRICTS, PARENTS, UNION MEMBERS AND UNIONS INTERESTED IN BETTER INDOOR AIR QUALITY!
The EPA Tools for Schools (TfS) program, designed to raise awareness about good indoor air quality practices and provide helps to school districts for monitoring of school IAQ, sponsors an annual conference, held in Washington DC each winter.
The 2008 TfS conference is being held Dec. 4-6th. Registration required with limited attendance, so mark your calendars, establish your IAQ point people, and prepare for the funding to attend, now! Registration usually begins in the summer, so keep checking back with the EPA site, below.
Many districts send a team to this conference, consisting of facilities manager, superintendent or designee, parent representatives and union representatives - the point people for indoor air quality (IAQ). Some unions interested in IAQ send a large contingent, also. There is a meeting for NEA members, related to TfS and IAQ, the day before the TfS general conference begins. Union members of NEA should contact NEA-HIN Jennie Young, for details or go to the www.nea.org website for more details (Health Information Network - HIN - will post the date, and registration is required, with limited spaces again. Sometimes NEA pays for some of the expenses of some members to attend the NEA-HIN TfS IAQ conference, you can apply for subsidy as a member.
From the EPA website:http://www.epa.gov/iaq/:
To see if your school district or union sent representatives in 2007, click here for a roster of attendees by state.
If your district or union didn't attend, strongly encourage them to attend this year!
IAQ Tools for Schools (TfS) Program - Twenty percent of the U.S. population, nearly 55 million people, spend their days in our elementary and secondary schools. In the mid-1990s, studies show that 1 in 5 of our nation's 110,000 schools reported unsatisfactory indoor air quality, and 1 in 4 schools reported ventilation -- which impacts indoor air quality -- as unsatisfactory. Students are at greater risk because of the hours spent in school facilities and because children are especially susceptible to pollutants. Learn More |
