Granite School District began the 2018/2019 school year with idle-free technology installed on 40 buses—nearly a third of the entire fleet. Granite is the first school district in Utah to install the Utah-invented and patented Idle Free Heat Technology in its buses. The installation was made possible through grant funding from the Utah Clean Air ...
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This is how schools make decisions regarding recess and air quality
With winter setting in, it’s a good time for a refresher on how air quality can affect recess time. Student health and safety is our primary concern. As such, schools monitor air quality indexes and take appropriate action based on guidance from the Utah Department of Health. The guidance aligns with federal Air Quality Index (AQI) ...
Recess and air quality
Student health and safety is our primary concern. As such, schools monitor air quality indexes and take appropriate action based on guidance from the Utah Department of Health. The guidance aligns with federal Air Quality Index (AQI) recommendations and links indoor recess recommendations to PM2.5 levels, which is the air pollutant of main ...
Help us keep the air clean for our students
You can reduce air pollutants with the turn of a key. Although it may seem like your individual effort to reduce emissions won’t have an impact, the collective actions of each person can help our students breathe easy. The bulk of wintertime inversion pollution comes from mobile sources (cars on roads). Tailpipe emissions enter the ...
Armstrong Academy partners with Utah DEQ, BYU for air toxin study
Neil Armstrong Academy has partnered with scientists and researchers from the Utah Department of Environmental Quality and Brigham Young University to conduct an air toxin monitoring project. The study uses state-of-the-art instruments to measure gaseous and particulate HAPs in real-time. Scientists stopped by the school to unveil the project ...
Q: During inversions, how do schools determine when to keep kids inside for recess?
Winter in Salt Lake County inevitably brings periods of temperature inversions, leading to poor air quality. When this happens, one of the primary concerns is the health of students who go outside for recess. In these conditions, schools follow the direction of the Utah Department of Health for when to keep students indoors for recess. The graph ...
Here’s how you can help our students breathe easy (infographic)
Some folks enjoy summer, others prefer a snowy winter; but there’s complete consensus on at least one weather condition: valley inversions. Inversions are an unpleasant reality everyone, especially young children, senior citizens and those with respiratory conditions. Although the issue occurs on a broad scale, there are simple ways you can help ...
Recess and air quality
Winter in Salt Lake County inevitably brings periods of temperature inversions, leading to poor air quality. When this happens, one of the primary concerns is the health of students who go outside for recess. In these conditions, schools follow the direction of the Utah Department of Health for when to keep students indoors for recess. The graph ...