Facing wildfires and pandemics, California must invest in ensuring clean air in schools

After a year of prolonged school closures due to the Covid-19 pandemic, California’s educators have been hard at work readying to open to full-time, in-person learning across the state.

Rich Pedroncelli for Associated Press

Schools face falling enrollment and learning loss that will impact schoolchildren for years to come, making successful reopening essential to regain lost ground.

By Zoe Lew, Lisa Patel, Erika Veidis, Ed Source| 7/2021

Wildfire smoke threatens children’s health. Breathing toxic pollution from wildfires is roughly 10 times more dangerous for children when measured against comparable air pollution from other sources. Read More