Hot, stuffy classrooms make it harder for students to learn. This is especially important given the learning losses that many children experienced in the first two years of the pandemic. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s August 2022 COVID-19 guidance for schools, which scales back other measures for limiting transmission, such as masking, testing and quarantining.īeyond minimizing COVID-19 transmission, indoor air quality also matters for student academic performance. This is especially problematic in the wake of the U.S. Sadly, this is not the case – and indoor air quality in many schools is poor as a result.
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Ideally, all school buildings would have adequate ventilation, filtered air in each classroom and windows that open.
Children and teachers spend over six hours a day in classrooms during the school year, often in buildings that are decades old and have inadequate heating, ventilation and air conditioning, or HVAC, systems.įall 2022 marks the start of the fourth school year affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, which has spotlighted the importance of indoor air quality in schools. As fall temperatures cool across the U.S., many schools will struggle to ventilate classrooms while also keeping students and teachers comfortable and healthy.
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