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Resources

• Policy Brief: Indoor Air Quality: Governing Board Actions for Creating Healthy School Environments (7/08)  

Related Links

• The California School Environmental Health and Asthma Collaborative (SEHAC) brings together education and health professionals to promote indoor and outdoor environments that maximize health and learning in schools.
• Tools for Schools - A comprehensive resource from the EPA to help schools maintain a healthy environment in school buildings by identifying, correcting, and preventing IAQ problems.
• Indoor Air Quality Resources: EPA’s Tools for Schools, Fact Sheet
• Collaborative for High Performance Schools - Helps school districts design environments that are not only energy and resource efficient, but healthy, comfortable, well lit and containing amenities needed for a quality education.
• Green Technology - Special issue on California schools that have implemented green school construction.

• Asthma in California: A Surveillance Report-Comprehensive data on asthma that can be used to inform policy and to help plan, implement, and evaluate interventions.