Did you know that 45 states now have indoor air quality laws in one form or other? Alabama, for example, urges state educational agencies to adopt EPA's IAQ Tools for Schools (TfS) program for use in all public schools. According to the Environmental Law Institute's database of state indoor air quality laws enacted through December 2008, some states like Arizona require that the state's school facilities board provide information on improving and maintaining indoor environmental quality to school districts every two years. The complete ELI database on state indoor air quality laws can be accessed here.

CEFPI and the US EPA presented the first Healthy Schools Summit in San Diego in September 2008. Fifty of the nation's top experts actively involved in building, designing and planning healthy, high performance facilities attended this Summit. Please read an abstract here. We want to invite you to play an active role in developing a roadmap for any community that wants to build healthy, high performance facilities. Any suggestions? Please join us in this conversation.

Today is Earth Day 2009 and what better opportunity for us to launch this blog on healthy schools! Here are some resources for you to consider as you think of building, healthy, high performance school facilities. In partnership with the U.S. EPA, we have been  promoting indoor air quality in schools nationwide. Here is an  excellent resource developed  as part of this cooperative agreement:  http://healthyschools.cefpi.org
 

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