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Reports

Updated 2012 Advocacy Checklist

Updated 2012 Advocacy Checklist

Improving the Implementation & Enforcement of Section One of PA 03-220

June 2005: Improving the Implementation & Enforcement of Section One of PA 03-220: An Act Concerning Indoor Air Quality in Schools. All Schools Should Be Pollution Free.

This ConnFESS report assesses how well Section One of PA03-220: An Act Concerning Indoor Air Quality in Schools has been implemented since it was enacted in July 2003 to the date of this publication, June 2005. It discusses current barriers to compliance while emphasizing ways to improve its implementation and enforcement. ConnFESS intends to track the progress of this law's implementation and update this report on an ongoing basis.

The language of PA03-220 explicitly assigns the State Department of Education (SDE) with the task of meeting the mandates of Section One. In response, SDE staff revised the School Facilities Survey in 2003. Unfortunately, this attempt to incorporate these mandates resulted in a fundamentally flawed questionnaire. This report explains in detail how the 2003 ED050 failed to fulfill the letter and legislative intent of this law. [Executive Summary]

Updated October 2006: Addendum to the 2005 Report, "Improving the Implementation & Enforcement of Section One of PA 03-220".

The purpose of this addendum is to provide an updated assessment of how Section One of Connecticut's 2003 PA 03-220 (CT General Statutes 10-220 (a)) is and is not working. Since the release of our initial report in June 2005 numerous events and publications have added further context and perspective to this ongoing discussion. [Addendum Executive Summary]