DOCUMENTS FOR SCHOOLS
These sample documents provide a basic framework to assist you in approaching your school to create healthier environments for our children. Send them to your principal, school district managers, school boards, and teachers. Gather support to help your school move forward with non toxic management.
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States
Connecticut
Legislation passed in July 2015 banning toxic pesticides on municipal playgrounds. School districts are required to give minimum 24 hour notification for pesticide application on school property. Integrated pest management methods and tracking are required to reduce pesticide use on state properties as well.
Connecticut Bans Toxic Lawn Pesticides in Municipal Playgrounds Statewide
Pesticide-Free Sports Fields are Working for Connecticut's Youth
SB – 443 an act concerning pesticides on school grounds, parks, playgrounds, athletic fields and municipal greens
Legislation passed in July 2015 banning toxic pesticides on municipal playgrounds. School districts are required to give minimum 24 hour notification for pesticide application on school property. Integrated pest management methods and tracking are required to reduce pesticide use on state properties as well.
Connecticut Bans Toxic Lawn Pesticides in Municipal Playgrounds Statewide
Pesticide-Free Sports Fields are Working for Connecticut's Youth
SB – 443 an act concerning pesticides on school grounds, parks, playgrounds, athletic fields and municipal greens
Massachusetts
Public schools are required to implement integrated pest management.
Massachusetts school policies
Public schools are required to implement integrated pest management.
Massachusetts school policies
New York
Law prohibits school or day care centers from applying pesticides to any playgrounds, turf, or athletic or playing fields. The requirements are administered by the NY State Education Department for schools and by the Office of Children and Family Services for daycare centers.
Pesticide prohibition on grounds at schools and day care centers
Law prohibits school or day care centers from applying pesticides to any playgrounds, turf, or athletic or playing fields. The requirements are administered by the NY State Education Department for schools and by the Office of Children and Family Services for daycare centers.
Pesticide prohibition on grounds at schools and day care centers
School Districts
Irvine Unified School District
Los Angeles Unified School District
Newport Mesa Unified School District/CostaMesa
Los Angeles Unified School District
Newport Mesa Unified School District/CostaMesa
Universities
University of Colorado, CU - Boulder, Colorado
Green Mountain College, Vermont
Harvard University, Massachusetts
Keene State College, New Hampshire
Willamette University, Oregon
Yale University, Connecticut
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The ChildSafe School
The ChildSafe School is a program of Grassroots Environmental Education, a science-based non-profit organization. The ChildSafe School program was developed in response to growing evidence linking childhood exposure to common environmental exposures with significant health outcomes, and the awareness that the impacts of some of these exposures can be lifelong.
Children and Schools
Beyond Pesticides overview of resources for children and schools. Includes studies, state and local law, policy and more.
Children's Environmental Health Center
The Children’s Environmental Health Center (CEHC) is a Center of Excellence at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. The faculty conducts groundbreaking research to identify the environmental causes of childhood diseases. They translate their findings into solutions using research to educate families and advocate for public policy that protect children’s health.
The ChildSafe School is a program of Grassroots Environmental Education, a science-based non-profit organization. The ChildSafe School program was developed in response to growing evidence linking childhood exposure to common environmental exposures with significant health outcomes, and the awareness that the impacts of some of these exposures can be lifelong.
Children and Schools
Beyond Pesticides overview of resources for children and schools. Includes studies, state and local law, policy and more.
Children's Environmental Health Center
The Children’s Environmental Health Center (CEHC) is a Center of Excellence at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. The faculty conducts groundbreaking research to identify the environmental causes of childhood diseases. They translate their findings into solutions using research to educate families and advocate for public policy that protect children’s health.
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