Public Health Law and the Built Environment in American Public Schools

Education, in the United States, is accomplished
through a highly fragmented system of school
districts nested within sovereign states governed by
locally elected school boards. The laws governing
the built environment in American public schools are
fragmented horizontally (between states) and
vertically (federal, state, county, local). This
fragmentation has resulted in a national system of
public schools with a loosely regulated environment
that compels exposure of over 50 million students
each day to known health hazards with the resultant
marginal health costs absorbed by society. This book
explores the history of the built environment in
American public schools and how the common
schoolhouse devolved into national system of locally
controlled public school buildings that compel its
occupants to exposures in environments worse than
those acceptable in private workplaces. Policies
related to domains in the built environment are
analyzed and alternative policies are recommended.
This book would be a valuable resource for anyone at
the local, state or federal level interested in
cost-effective policies related to the built
environment in American public schools.

Autorentext
Brent Ibata, PhD, JD, MPH: Mensan and graduate of The Second City Training Center. Studied Public Health and Health Law at Saint Louis University's School of Public Health and School of Law. Dr. Ibata earned his B.S. - with honors - from Southern Illinois University in Carbondale and worked at New Trier High School from 1996-1998.

Klappentext
Education, in the United States, is accomplished through a highly fragmented system of school districts nested within sovereign states governed by locally elected school boards. The laws governing the built environment in American public schools are fragmented horizontally (between states) and vertically (federal, state, county, local). This fragmentation has resulted in a national system of public schools with a loosely regulated environment that compels exposure of over 50 million students each day to known health hazards with the resultant marginal health costs absorbed by society. This book explores the history of the built environment in American public schools and how the common schoolhouse devolved into national system of locally controlled public school buildings that compel its occupants to exposures in environments worse than those acceptable in private workplaces. Policies related to domains in the built environment are analyzed and alternative policies are recommended. This book would be a valuable resource for anyone at the local, state or federal level interested in cost-effective policies related to the built environment in American public schools.