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Schools combat mold growth - NEW
Tyler's parents blame poor air quality at the Eight Mile community school for their son's wintertime ailment, and they have air test results showing that mold levels there are unusually high. - March 24, 2003
Mold Problems Force NCCU Faculty, Students Out Of Biology Building - NEW
Officials say the Lee Biology Building at North Carolina Central University is a biohazard. Leaking steam from the heating system and roof problems cultivated serious mold. - February 24, 2003
Air duct cleanup starts at schools; Study pinpoints air quality needs in Fort Worth
Veteran kindergarten teacher Elizabeth Donaldson has many allergies. She says they used to bother her more than usual when she was in her classroom at Alice Carlson Applied Learning Center. Donaldson's input into a districtwide survey last year were among the comments that a Dallas consultant used to help determine which Fort Worth schools have air quality problems that need to be resolved.
Area School District to Initiate Plan to Monitor Air Quality
With the finding of more potentially dangerous mold at Grapevine-Colleyville schools, Superintendent Jim Thompson has pledged to launch a comprehensive air quality program that will be unveiled this summer.
Classroom closed after mold discovered
AUSTIN (AP) - Officials at North Oaks Elementary School in Round Rock closed a third-grade classroom Friday after mold was discovered growing in the room's ceiling.
Feds' MATC Probe Zeros In On Air Woes
MATC President Beverly Simone says the school welcomes the assistance of federal investigators in solving air quality problems at the Truax campus.
Fungal contaminate debated as problem at LV Academy
Air sample tests taken at the Las Vegas Academy will show there is no danger of fungal contaminate, Principal Bob Gerye said this morning.
Fungal Contamination in Public Buildings:
A Guide to Recognition and Management (Health Canada Publication: to download) (Human Health Effects covered) - 88 Pages - PDF (520k)
June 1995
Health risk shuts grade school; Mold levels spur Austin district to
School district officials on Tuesday closed Hill Elementary in Northwest Austin after tests found a potentially harmful mold in the school. The unusual move comes after several teachers, including one who was rushed from Hill to an emergency room after an asthma attack Friday, and at least one student were treated at hospitals this school year for health problems -- many attributed to mold at the school.
Healthy School Environments: Addressing the sick building syndrome
Indoor air quality problems can strike any school. High probability other hospital staff affected by airborne moulds.
IAQ in Schools
Invisible Invaders Mold Discoveries And Ailments On Texas Campuses
As an investigator in the thick of an environmental mystery, Ken McBride spends his days slogging through dark crawl spaces in school buildings, lifting grimy carpets and poking through cobwebs above ceilings.
Mold Discovered In 8 District School Buildings
More mold - some of which has been identified as the potentially dangerous stachybotrys variety - has been found in eight grapevine - Colleyville school district facilities in the last several weeks, officials said.
Mold displaces second-graders; Fungus found after teachers' reports of musty smell
More than 130 second-grade students and seven teachers at Bebensee Elementary School have been moved to different classrooms until the source of a potentially dangerous mold can be found and eliminated. The culprit is Stachybotrys chartarum, a fungus that grows on materials such as wood or paper that have been very wet for more than a few days.
Mold Found In Girl's Lungs; Pupils' Illness Adds To Portables Controversy
Worries about her little girl's health nagged at Jennifer Overlock for months, but she wrote off the frequent headaches and stomachaches as "just part of growing up."
Mold prompts class-action lawsuit at Riverside
For Talana Mielke, it started with the stench of rotten meat. The smell permeated her Riverside High School office in early 1997. The vocational department secretary remembers it well because it was about that time, she said, that she developed a chronic case of bronchitis.
Mold Remediation in Schools and Commercial Buildings
Neglected Buildings, Damaged Health: A 'Snapshot' of New York City Public School Environmental Conditions
This report based on a survey of school conditions carried out by the New York City Healthy Schools Working Group provides a snapshot of the environmental conditions in New York City public schools.
Officials to examine classrooms for mold contamination
State health investigators next week will examine two rooms in a Fairfield County junior high school that were closed to students after mold was found.
School district attacks bad air in classrooms
Sick school buildings may be making kids sick.
SCHOOLS WORK TO IMPROVE AIR QUALITY INDOORS.
Donned moon suits recently to scrape asbestos from the ceiling at Green Trails Elementary School in Chesterfield.
Some classes to resume at mold-infested school The Austin school district will reopen portions of an elementary school campus that was closed earlier this week after large quantities of a potentially hazardous mold were discovered in buildings. Superintendent Pat Forgione tried Thursday night to assure hundreds of Hill Elementary School parents who attended a meeting at Anderson High School that the portables and annex on the campus will be safe when their children return next week.
Who's Right on School Portables? State's Findings Challenge Toxicologist's Conclusions
The Saugus Union School District spent more than $300,000 in testing portable classrooms linked to some chronic illnesses - and came up with nothing, according to a memo from the uperintendent.