Federal officials seek better rules about schools’ indoor air quality
“Significant questions remain regarding effectiveness and the potential impacts on human ,” air quality experts wrote about the equipment schools are buying. WASHINGTON — The Education Department is drafting new guidance about indoor air safety in schools, administration officials said, as a group of scientists, engineers and experts warn that schools have spent hundreds of millions of federal dollars on electronic air cleaning devices that are scientifically unproven and could produce harmful chemical byproducts. At least 250 public schools or school systems and some universities have bought the devices, including…