Hannah Holiday and Tonya Bah construct a Corsi-Rosenthal box, a DIY air purifier, for use in Philadelphia public schools, in this 2021 file photo. Holiday and Bah are part of a group of parents and community members who want better air quality in Philadelphia School District schools.
— holding the potential to create harmful chemicals. Those air purifiers remain in schools, and the board last year authorized $2.5 million to buy replacement parts. Philadelphia teacher Charlie Hudgins teaches math at Lincoln High in the Northeast. Lincoln was constructed in 2009, so it doesn’t have the ventilation issues many other schools have.
Superintendent Tony B. Watlington Sr. has emphasized boosting student and teacher attendance as a central tenet of his strategic plan for improving academics in the district.At Houston Elementary in Mount Airy — a school that has no air-conditioning nor operational ventilation system — students in the science club recently made their own Corsi-Rosenthal boxes to help improve air quality. The kids enjoyed the activity, said Emily Pugliese, parent of two students at Houston.
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