Illinois School's IAQ Program Praised by EPA

Healthy indoor air quality (IAQ) is no accident in the Belleville Township High School District in Belleville, Illinois. In fact, it's a priority. Using the EPA's IAQ Tools for Schools as a guide, the district partnered with a firm that specializes in environmental management in order to design and manage an IAQ program. Then Belleville administrators created a plan to ensure that the program was working -- and that it would continue to work in a sustainable way. Superintendent Greg Moats and the Belleville IAQ team also earned broad support from across the school community in order to make this program a success. 

Superintendent Moats says: “We believe it is imperative for our schools to provide the best climate possible for our 5,000 students and 400 employees. The IAQ Tools for Schools Program is helping us do that very thing.”

This month, the Belleville Township High School District was singled out in a national EPA newsletter [PDF] for its leadership and dedication to IAQ.

Congratulations to Belleville and to all the schools making good IAQ a priority!

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Comments

[stefanie]

Healthy school campaigns? Maybe you all should in your healthy school campaign should focus on how to discipline young teens giving brutal beatings to other students that are innocent. With incidents like these in your so called healthy school systems, your student attendance will slowly decrease, which means no money. Its a shame that children will now be scared to attend the school and ride the bus home and its also a shame that kids that have the same issues as these two ignorant cold heartless kids have, they will not see it as a punishment to be suspended for FIVE DAYS!!!!!!

[An Irate Texas Teacher]

"Healthy schools" my eye! I hope that poor kid's parents sue the school district, the bus driver, those thugs' parents and YOU. I'll be scanning the Internet for a legal fund to finance legal action. The whole country knows what your disrict is about, now and it's not healthy schools. SHAME ON YOU!

[Mark Bishop]

We were saddened to learn about the recent incident of violent bullying in Belleville, the district which we congratulated in this post several months ago for receiving an EPA award for improving indoor air quality. Bullying and violence are some of the saddest realities that our schools and communities are facing – in Belleville, here in Chicago and nationwide. Our hearts go out to the students, teachers, parents and community affected by this tragedy.