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 Coalition for Healthier Schools (2015). 

Towards Healthy Schools 2015: Progress on America’s Environmental Health Crisis for Children is the third triennial state-by-state data and policy report on this topic since 2006. Sick Schools (2009) and before it Lessons Learned (2006) researched and assessed state-by-state data and policies on environmental conditions at schools and risks to children’s health, compiling them into a single, unique resource that painted a deeply disturbing picture, in which vulnerable children endure unhealthy schools. This guide provides basic federal data for public schools, such as total number of buildings; total enrollment; total number of personnel; percentage of children with asthma; percentage of children without health insurance; total number of children receiving special education; total number of children of minority status; and more.

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Council of Educational Facilities Planners International (2013).

As leaders in creating safety in the built environment, CEFPI orchestrated a security summit in Washington, D.C. to explore just this topic. This document is a result of the collaborative effort of the many professionals who participated in this work. Its aim is to empower stakeholders with a guide to best practices used by many practitioners. Its primary scope addresses educators and school boards charged with safeguarding students and staff…but it is also useful to parent groups, security officials, elected officials, and other such public given to this task.

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National Collaborating for Environmental Health (2012).

This report provides Public Health Inspectors (PHIs) and Environmental Health Officers (EHOs) with recommendations for evaluating buildings, residences, and other built environments for mould. This information is based on Mould Assessment in Indoor Environments -- Review of Guidelines & Evidence, which includes available evidence from current research papers and mould assessment guidelines commissioned by the NCCEH.

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National Forum on Education Statistics (2012).

This guide builds on a 2003 Forum publication, Facilities Information Management: A Guide for State and Local Education Agencies. The data elements presented in this guide are described in greater detail in the NCES Handbooks Online at http://nces.ed.gov/programs/handbook. They have been refined and expanded to meet the latest needs of facilities managers, policymakers, and other stakeholders interested in the condition of public school buildings and grounds. In particular, data elements were added or updated to support changing expectations for sustainable design and management; community use, co-location, and joint use; and budget and finance associated with private financing for public charter school facilities. In addition, the first three levels of data reflect standards from the UNIFORMAT classifications system to create a better linkage between school district facility data and information classifications in the construction industry

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Colorado School Safety Resource Center (CSSRC) (2012).

This planning guide was modeled after the USDOE (2007) four-phase model of emergency planning: Prevention / Mitigation, Preparedness, Response and Recovery. In addition, this guide is in compliance with the Colorado Safe Schools Act CRS 22-32-109.1 which requires each school district to adopt and implement a safe schools plan.

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Federal Emergency Management Administration (FEMA) and US Deptartment of Homeland Security (2012).

A new publication series, aimed at engineers, architects, building owners, city planners, and emergency managers, makes available years of government, industry, and academic research on designs and materials to make buildings and tunnels terror-resistant and terror-resilient. The Building and Infrastructure Protection Series (BIPS) provides architects and engineers a set of aids for designing critical infrastructure to withstand all kinds of hazards…at a cost that won’t break the budget. “This series lays the foundation for designing a new generation of resilient buildings,” says Mila Kennett, who oversees the series in S&T’s Infrastructure Protection and Disaster Management Division, where she leads the Structural Resilience Branch. An architect by training, Kennett came from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), where she edited a similar publication series after 9/11. Several of the BIPS guides expand upon and update her highly regarded FEMA guides The primer provides school designers and administrators a set of guidelines to design a school where children, faculty and staff will be safe during a physical attack or targeted shooting.

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Satterly, S. (2012). Retrieval Location

This article is a refresher of current best practices for tornado sheltering for schools, as well as an explanation of why they have become best practices. The process to change protocals so changes are made in a thoughtful and logical manner are described.

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Environmental Protection Agency (2012).

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has developed these voluntary guidelines to assist states in establishing and implementing environmental health programs for K-12 schools in accordance with the Energy Independence & Security Act of 2007. In carrying out this statutory mandate, EPA, along with its federal partners, developed these guidelines to help states establish the infrastructure needed to support schools in implementing school environmental health programs. The practices recommended within these guidelines can also be applied, with appropriate adaptation, to a wide range of school-related institutions, including child care and early learning centers.

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