Poor Air Quality in Schools Equal Student Days Absent

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Submitted by Alex Carter
March 14th, 2008
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The American Lung Association reported that “American children missed more than 12 million school days in 2000 because of asthma exacerbated by poor indoor air quality”.

Source
American Federation of Teachers. 2006. Building Minds, Minding Buildings: Turning Our Crumbling Schools into Environments for Learning. http://www.aft.org/topics/building-conditions/downloads/minding-bldgs.pdf.
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