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School in Winter

November 2020Granite Schools

Vector illustration of school building in snowy weather and text 'School in Winter'

Jump to Recess & Air Quality Jump to School & Snowy Weather MORNING ACCESS TO SCHOOL BUILDINGS Students may only be in the school building if there is appropriate supervision. Your child’s school has established the hours that students will be supervised. These hours should have ...

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GSD Buses Rollout New Technology To Eliminate Idling

August 2018Granite Schools

Media members film school bus

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 ...

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Filed Under: Employee Link, Parent LinkTagged With: air quality, anti-idle, bus, buses, grant, heating, idle free, inversion, technology, transportation, ucair

This is how schools make decisions regarding recess and air quality

December 2017Granite Schools

Vector drawing of buildings, mountains and sky with text '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 ...

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Filed Under: Parent LinkTagged With: air quality, asthma, breathe, condition, coughing, department, Featured, health, idle, idle free, inversion, levels, pollution, utah

Recess and air quality

January 2017Granite Schools

Vector drawing of buildings, mountains and sky with text '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 ...

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Help us keep the air clean for our students

September 2016Granite Schools

Jefferson Jr High students hold sign encouraging idle-free habits

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 ...

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Filed Under: Parent LinkTagged With: air, car, cities, clean, exhaust, idle free, initiative, inversion, jefferson jr high, pollution, transportation

Armstrong Academy partners with Utah DEQ, BYU for air toxin study

January 2016Granite Schools

Photo of official from Utah Division of Environmental Quality activating air quality model

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 ...

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Filed Under: Employee Link, Parent LinkTagged With: air toxin, byu, department of air quality, inversion, neil armstrong academy, pollution, study, utah

Q: During inversions, how do schools determine when to keep kids inside for recess?

January 2016Granite Schools

Photo of temperature inversion over Salt Lake Valley with text '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 ...

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Filed Under: Parent LinkTagged With: air quality, aqi, Featured, health, index, inversion, pm, recess, respiratory, safety, sensitive, smog, smoke, temperature, winter

Here’s how you can help our students breathe easy (infographic)

December 2015Granite Schools

Photo of Salt Lake Valley during temperature inversion

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 ...

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Filed Under: Parent LinkTagged With: air, bus, clean, exhaust, Featured, free, healthy, idle, inversion, quality, smog, transportation, walk, winter

Recess and air quality

January 2015Granite Schools

Bar graph chart for particulate matter recommendations

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 ...

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