Asbestos and the Poor Environment of America's Schools

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For teachers and staff who worked at a Fairfield, CT elementary school, a common joke was that working in the school was less a suburban New England experience and more like a South American rain forest. The school, which had been built on a wetlands site, left the school’s maintenance staff routinely dealing with repairs such as leaky ceilings and soggy carpets. This school's problem is not unique, as hundreds of buildings in the U.S. are termed as having “sick building syndrome,” a term coined to describe problems like asbestos contamination.

In a 1995 report published by the General Accounting Office (GAO) report entitled "School Facilities: Condition of America's Schools," they report that more than 14 million children attend a school with an environmental problem. And in the 13+ years since that report was published, environmental advocacy experts EPA experts claim that little has been done to correct these problems.

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