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"The Environmental And Health Costs Of Portable Classrooms" [1]

"Teacher Billie Lane’s portable is a world apart from other classrooms at her school.

She’s filled the space with toys from across the universe: Star Trek, Star Wars, Marvel, Transformers and Godzilla. Lane’s World, her students named it — an homage to the faux public-access TV hit.

The modular classroom at Kalles Junior High in Puyallup, Washington is her home. She’s taught in the box for 16 years.

And she takes care of it. But not every portable classroom is like hers."

Kate Campbell, Ashley Ahearn, and Tony Schick report for EarthFix/Oregon Public Broadcasting May 7, 2014. [2]

Environmental Health [3]
National (U.S.) [4]
Public [5]
Source: EarthFix/OPB [2], 05/08/2014
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[1] https://www.sej.org/headlines/environmental-and-health-costs-portable-classrooms [2] http://earthfix.opb.org/communities/article/overcrowded-underfunded-schools-turn-to-environmen/ [3] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/environmental-health [4] https://www.sej.org/category/region/national [5] https://www.sej.org/taxonomy/term/81