; Whereas the T.H. Chan School of Public Health Schools for Health study reported that the environmental conditions of schools affect children’s health, thinking, and learning ; Whereas environmental contaminants can affect children quite differently than adults, both because children may be more highly exposed to contaminants and they may be more vulnerable to the toxic effects of contaminants; and further, environmental contaminants can affect children disproportionately since their immune defenses are not fully developed and their growing organs are more easily harmed; Whereas these environmental problems contribute to absenteeism, child medication use, learning difficulties, sick building syndrome, staff turnover, and greater liability for school districts; Whereas there has been a significant rise in the incidence of childhood asthma, learning disabilities, and cancer; Whereas a 2018 study, Heat and Learning , by the National Bureau of Economic Research found that in schools without air conditioning, for every 1 Fahrenheit degree increase in school year temperature, the amount learned by students that year goes down by 1 percent; Whereas a 2016 report by the 21st Century School Fund found that, between 2012 and 2013, the average age of the main building of a public school was 44 years old; Whereas, in 2017, the American Society of Civil Engineers infrastructure report card stated 53 percent of schools needed to make investments for repairs, renovations, and modernizations to be considered to be in good condition; Whereas environmental, public health, and education laws must reflect a heightened sensitivity to the more susceptible nature of children and the mechanisms by which exposures and impacts affect children; Whereas providing for the rights of children, parents, teachers and other educators, and the public to access information about known hazards in schools will allow these persons to make informed choices about environmental exposures for their children and themselves