Safer Air Safer Schools

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🌬️✨ Did you know that the air quality in our schools can directly impact student performance and attendance? Check out our website for more info!📚💯

#SaferAirSaferSchools #BetterSchools #HealthyKids

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We appreciate @ashishkjha.bsky.social advocating in @bostonglobe.com for cleaning the air in public schools! Fortunately,
legislators in Massachusetts are trying to pass legislation to fix this growing problem. 👇👇👇https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/03/13/metro/commentary-ri-clean-air-schools/

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Viral Respiratory Illness Protection Everyone ages six months and older is encouraged to get the updated flu and COVID-19 vaccines. Pregnant parents, babies, and older adults should consult their health care professional about RSV vaccin...

Protect yourself and your loved ones from viral respiratory illnesses. Learn about viral respiratory illness protection at boston.gov/respiratory-protection.

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Students aren’t recovering from covid. Test scores are getting worse. Takeaways from new federal data on student math and reading achievement detail the long and damaging road back from the pandemic.

Here’s a fun assignment: pull your local district’s absenteeism numbers by week and juxtapose their graphed data with wastewater numbers. Spoiler alert not needed.

Clean the dirty air in classrooms and watch what happens to absences and test scores.

www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...

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A bunch of new followers recently - thanks, @katharinehayhoe.com, for including me in your “Climate and Health” starter pack! - so I thought I would re-introduce myself.

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🌍✨ Hello, world!

Thrilled to be here! We’re dedicated to (some may say obsessed with) improving air quality in schools. Clean air isn’t a luxury—it’s essential for every person to thrive.

Join us as we work to ensure children can breathe easy and dream big. Together, we can make a difference!

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