Philly Healthy Schools Initiative
@PhillyHSI
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PHSI brings together parents, teachers, principals, students, community members, and experts to address environmental health threats found in our schools.
Philadelphia, PA
Joined November 2017
Our guide to the Healthy Schools Tracker app here: https://t.co/blc7N3onw2
#phled @PFTLocal3 @AFTteach Help document the facility issues here, our kids & teachers deserve safe and healthy learning environments!
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PFT environmental scientist Jerry Roseman discusses the paint hazards at Furness. #phled #fundourfacilities
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Help document school building conditions #phled apple https://t.co/Yd9lkizFK6 or Android https://t.co/uSi9y3gDTj
@RepFiedler @RepHohenstein @RepMaryIsaacson @RepHarris @RepDonatucci @RepCephas @RepRabb @RepRoebuck Please RT
Kicking off @RepFiedler & @PADemPolicy committee hearing on the urgent need to #FundOurFacilities. #phled
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Roseman urges community to utilize PFT healthy schools tracker to report concerns. #phled #fundourfacilities
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PFT’s Roseman: Over the past 8 months, I’ve looked at 100 bldgs. 40 w/ major asbestos projects. Major mold in dozens of schools. “Small problems left alone become bigger.” #phled #fundourfacilities
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I am very thankful to @RepFiedler for hosting today’s hearing on school building toxic conditions and emergency funding. We cannot continue to ignore this issue as the walls literally crumble around our kids. We must fund our facilities now. #phillyschools #fundourfacilities
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.@RepSims downloaded the PFT Healthy Schools App during the @PaHouseDems policy cmte hearing and reported the climate issue in the Furness auditorium. Asks @jerrytjordan about next steps in the process. Pres Jordan explains how we follow up w/ reports. #phled #fundourfacilities
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PFT environmental scientist Jerry Roseman speaks about the importance of community input and feedback. The problems we’re seeing at Furness are not unique. #phled #fundourfacilities
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Our guide to the Healthy Schools Tracker app here: https://t.co/blc7N3onw2
#phled @PFTLocal3 @AFTteach Help document the facility issues here, our kids & teachers deserve safe and healthy learning environments!
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Thank you to @SenatorHughes and all of our state legislators who have made cleaning up toxic schools across the Commonwealth a top budgetary priority. #FundOurFacilities #FundOurFutures #PAbudget #PHLed
https://t.co/jWsDBozs4e
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Thank you for your leadership on this issue @SenatorHughes! Protecting our most vulnerable populations where they spend most of their waking hours is a top priority for us and our work with @PhillyHSI and should be for everyone!
Why aren’t dangerous schools a higher priority? | Editorial @edlawcenterpa @MrsL132 @thesherylralph @DonnaRCooper @PaSenateDems @rweingarten @TheQonFox @solomonjones1 @PennEnvironment
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Why aren’t dangerous schools a higher priority? | Editorial @edlawcenterpa @MrsL132 @thesherylralph @DonnaRCooper @PaSenateDems @rweingarten @TheQonFox @solomonjones1 @PennEnvironment
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...our society does not value them in the same way it values children in richer parts of our state. As they grow up, this knowledge is buried deep into their understanding of the world. It is long past time for us adults to change that.” (2/2) #PublicEducation @PFTLocal3
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@RepKenyatta: Plans aren't enough. We need voters to put the pressure on legislators to approve funding needed to repair #PHLed schools #fundourfacilities @PhillyHSI
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.@SenatorHughes outlines his legislation to bring $85 million to #phled for immediate repairs to toxic school buildings #fundourfacilities #FundourFuture @PhillyHSI
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THREAD: (1/2) This #InfrastructureWeek I want to highlight my bill, HR 158, the Rehabilitation of Historic Schools Act, because our crumbling schools need fixing and should be included in any #infrastructure discussions >>>
michiganadvance.com
When I was asked to support a federal lawsuit that says Detroit’s deteriorating schools were having a negative impact on students’ ability to learn, the decision was a no-brainer. Detroit’s schools...
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(2/2) I’m also a PROUD co-sponsor of @EdLaborCmte Chairman @BobbyScott’s Rebuild America’s Schools Act because we need both bills to fix up our kids’ decades-old school buildings! #InfrastructureWeek #PHLed (Quotes are from today’s @PhillyInquirer) https://t.co/BUrXBBv90K
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Every day, 56 million children & adults set foot in a public school: 1 in 6 of all Americans. Half schools need repairs. Learn More: https://t.co/ZVqBAQh8EE
#BuildForTomorrow #infrastructure #RebuildAmericasSchools
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30.4 million children are served healthy school lunches and another 14.5 million children eat breakfast every morning in local public schools. Learn more how school buildings impact us all. https://t.co/JX2j5p5zxU
#BuildForTomorrow #infrastructure #RebuildAmericasSchools
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