Summary Jamie Green, Superintendent of Trinity Alps School District in California, reached out to CBS13 to help investigate how dangerous breathing mold spores could be to teachers and kids in classrooms. And to find out why no one was doing anything about it. Mold in schools is often under investigated. The answer – no required […]
Summary Some students in South Hall have noticed they have been continually sick without explanation. The problem has been identified as mold. Mold was found in the LSU Dorm. Mitigating LSU Dorm Mold LSU’s protocol for dealing with a report of mold or mildew has three parts. First, they bring in their maintenance team and […]
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — Emili Potts first noticed the mold outside of Craige dorm on the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill campus, trailing the wall below her leaky air conditioning unit. When the junior began having trouble breathing, she looked inside her AC unit and saw mold growing on the vents. Her moldy […]
Summary Parents concerned over mold noticed a smell not long after their kids stated sixth grade at Midlothian Middle School. In September 2016, one mother began to observe a strong, pungent odor in his clothes when she washed his laundry. She sought answers to her air quality concerns. She spoke to parents of other Midlothian […]
A patient at Seattle Children’s Hospital died, and five more were infected after mold was discovered in several operating rooms during a routine air test on the hospital in May. The federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services found the hospital in violation of two dozen federal regulations and hospital policy and notified the hospital […]
By: Jacque Masse SHELBY CO., Tenn. – Parents are outraged after a video circulated social media after food service workers served moldy food at a Shelby County school. A student took the video inside Ridgeway High School on Monday that shows several moldy waffles inside a bag. The school said the staff didn’t follow the […]
(CNN) A patient at Seattle Children’s Hospital has died from a mold infection The patient was one of six to develop an infection from 2018-2019, according to Alyse Bernal, public relations manager for the hospital. The infections follow several operating rooms being shut down in May by the detection of Aspergillus mold in the air. […]
LAWRENCE, Kan. – The University of Kansas is paying a former student-athlete $40,000 to settle a lawsuit claiming she became ill because of mold in the vents of her dormitory room. The Lawrence Journal-World reports the university denies the claims but agreed to pay Laine Evans $20,000 and her attorneys $20,000 to settle the lawsuit. […]
By Colleen Sikora for KRDO News COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – A local parent says toxic mold at her children’s former school made them sick and has medical testing to back it up. The school also has testing to prove otherwise, but she believes it isn’t enough. Emily Wilson is a proud mom of three little […]
POMFRET — Samuel Morey Elementary in Fairlee isn’t the only Upper Valley school dealing with a mold outbreak. Prosper Valley School in Pomfret has been closed since last summer. The K-6 school, which has about 70 students from Pomfret and Bridgewater, isn’t expected to reopen until the start of the 2020-21 school year. In the […]
CHARLESTON, SC (WCSC) – After several Live 5 News investigations into mold in classrooms, Governor Henry McMaster has signed a bill which will create a house committee to study the impact of mold on schools and in public areas. House bill 3127 was headed by Rep. Chandra Dillard. Gov. McMaster signed the bill on March […]
NIOSH has developed new tools to help employers identify and assess areas of dampness and mold in general buildings and in schools. The agency’s new Dampness and Mold Assessment Tool, which guides users through assessing all rooms in a building, provides a checklist and instructions for assessing and recording any damage related to dampness or […]
RELEASE: CRI – Center for Economic Policy and Analysis RE: Are Delaware school children and teachers being exposed to airborne toxins? Delaware’s public schools may have health threatening levels of mold and yet the state appears to be stonewalling. In 2002 an employee of Batta Enivronmental Associates, a Delaware industrial hygienist company, asserted that Delaware’s […]
Lawrence, MA – A Lawrence school shut down because of mold could stay that way for months. The Guilmette School has been closed for the last two weeks as crews try to clean up the toxic mold. The damage is greater than school leaders thought and it may be closed until the holidays. More than […]
North Carolina – For the second time this semester, children are being moved from the classrooms of Wrightsboro Elementary School because of mold. The remainder of the students at the school, all 409 children in grades first through the fifth, will not return to Wrightsboro starting Friday and through the end of the school year. […]
Cincinnati, OH – The University of Cincinnati has yet to respond to reports of the presence of black mold and asbestos in Morgens Hall, and the health of previous residents may be at risk. The university is legally mandated to respond to the situation by notifying all previous residents who could be affected by the […]
New Cumberland, OH – A growing problem of mold at the county’s bus garage was discussed at a special meeting of the Hancock County Board of Education Tuesday. Superintendent Suzan Smith said the mold problem stems from the ground around the building being higher than the building itself, allowing water to come in. “It was […]
Tempe, AZ – More mold has been found at Corona del Sol High School in Tempe. Reports on environmental testing of carpets being removed and of adjacent walls detail 2- to 3-square-inch spots of mold found at five locations on campus, according to a memorandum from Corona High plant-operations director Bob Anderson. According to the […]
Northampton, PA – Classes are cancelled at a local school due to a possible toxic classmate. Students at George Wolfe Elementary School in Bath, Northampton County are off for the rest of the week while school officials deal with mold. WFMZ’s Bo Koltnow has the story. Wendy, students were dismissed at 3:15 p.m. They won’t […]
Air quality is questioned in Whitney Elementary School and facility reopened to house Whitney kids Lake Zurich, IL – When flooding, asbestos and toxic mold shuttered a Lake Zurich school last fall, administrators shifted students to a vacant school next door. A Lake Zurich School District 95 official called the move “overly cautious” at the […]
Phoenix – The Arizona School Facilities Board has announced it will review a court decision that denied funding to Tempe’s Corona del Sol High School to fix its aging ventilation system. Data casts doubt on Corona illness claims. Staff says Corona del Sol makes them sick Tempe Union High School District spokeswoman Linda Littell said […]
Oshkosh, WI – The Boys and Girls Club of Oshkosh continues to wait for test results for mold in its Head Start building. The club decided to test for mold after several teachers reported feeling ill. Test results from the building are expected in the next few days, said Sue Traska, development and marketing director. […]
Colorado Springs, CO – Students attending The Classical Academy’s original campus could have a new building when they head back to school in August. Several of the modulars that make up the charter school’s East campus, 8650 Scarborough Drive, have mold, forcing students to move to other schools in Academy School District 20 through the […]
New Orleans, LA – Even after moving to get away from mold-infested buildings left behind after Hurricane Katrina, Southern University at New Orleans hasn’t been able to shake the problem. SUNO is operating from temporary buildings a half-mile away from its campus. But according to inspections completed last month, mold has followed SUNO to at […]
Houston, TX – It is a medical mystery and a parent’s nightmare: Something is making people sick inside a Houston middle school. So far, no one knows what it is. The school district says the air is clean and that children and employees should show up for school. But an increasing number of parents and teachers […]
Houston, TX – Houston Superintendent Abelardo Saavedra rejected pleas to close Key Middle School on Thursday after hearing directly from teachers who have been to the emergency room and parents who fear the building is making their children ill. “If at any time we feel that there really is a specific danger, as we look […]
According to El Paso County Schools, mold was found during maintenance at Woodland Hills Elementary. The mold will continue to be tested and recommendations will be announced in a few days. School District 49 has decided to test other school buildings for moisture. The schools will be closed during the selected testing times. Parents should […]
Lodi, CA – Lodi Unified is scrounging together $8 million from various funds to pay for the Tokay High mold cleanup, but the district is also hoping the state will cover more than half the bill. Earlier this week, the district board approved taking $2 million from its General Fund, $1 million from the adult […]
Lodi, CA – Toxic mold growing in every classroom building at Tokay High School has forced the start of school to be delayed for several weeks and may cost millions to clean up. “Every classroom building has it in one shape or form,” said Lodi Unified School District Supt. Bill Huyett. Huyett said he could […]
Lafayette, LA – It appears another argument has arisen on mold safety; depending on who stands to be liable for the problem. School officials said they were “exceedingly comfortable” sending children back to Plantation Elementary School on Wednesday, when the school reopened after two days of mold testing and cleaning. Not all parents agree. And experts […]
Pennsylvania – (Public Opinion/Ryan Blackwell) – Public concerns about conditions in the St. Thomas Elementary School prompted school officials to test the school and find mold in portions of the building. On April 4 and Monday, Analytical Laboratory Services Inc., Harrisburg, performed a fungal sampling survey and visual inspection at the school that houses 400 […]
Neptune Township, NJ – Three years and tens of millions of dollars later, part a brand new elementary school in New Jersey will be torn down before it ever held one class. The reason for this waste of taxpayer’s money: mold. From the outside, the almost-completed Midtown Community School looks to be a beacon of […]
Lexington, KY – The students living in the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity house will be looking for new places to live because of some recently discovered mold, UK officials said. “We’re in the process of cleaning,” said Gail Hairston, a UK spokeswoman. “The students will evacuate while experts clean and repair the cause (of the mold). […]
TOXIC MOLD NEWS STORY- A Teacher’s Nightmare Santa Ana, CA – Denise Byrd, a teacher of 15 years in the Santa Ana Unified School District, (SAUSD), became ill with lung damage and other secondary physical problems around March 2001, when the portable classroom she worked in was discovered to have serious toxic mold infestation. The […]
Torrington, WY – Eastern Wyoming College has closed a student apartment building after finding black mold inside the building. College President Jack Bottenfield said arrangements have been made to house the residents of the apartments in coed dormitories, making the occupancy five to a room instead of the standard four. However, the state fire marshal […]
Employees investigating Seattle Public Schools buildings earlier this year found evidence of mold in at least nine schools, and potential environmental hazards in a number of others and the results were downplayed. Mold is the most dangerous public health crisis of this century, despite the mismanagement of information that has been disseminated to the public. […]
Seattle, WA – A preliminary environmental report was ordered after Arbor Heights Elementary students complained of mysterious headaches, colds and other mold-related symptoms showed evidence of mold in carpets, on wallboard and under portable classrooms at the school. Mold was discovered in at least three rooms and a “moldy stench” was found in the library, […]
Orange County, FL – The University of Central Florida is spending almost $19 million on a new building for their engineering department but the project has apparently turned into a mold nightmare. The building was supposed to be the ‘piece de resistance’ of the engineering division; an $18.9 million, 75,000 square foot bastion. One member […]
MS – Specialists take mold, air samples in dorms; college cleaning with disinfectant. About 50 Tougaloo College students stood outside the administration building Wednesday to protest a mold problem in two dorms, officials and students said. “We decided it’s time out for talking, it’s time for us to do something,” said Tougaloo sophomore Brandi Brame, […]
Athens, Tenessee Valley – The Athens City Board of Education should shut down Brookhill Elementary if children and faculty continue to get sick, an Athens city councilman told the board on Monday. “The building is not worth one of your children’s health,” Councilman Harold Wales said during the joint board/council meeting. “I encourage you to […]
A Montreal hospital has moved premature babies out of its neonatal wing as it scrambles to locate the source of an infection that killed an infant two weeks ago. Although details remain sketchy, hospital officials have confirmed a report in Tuesday’s Journal de Montreal, that a 29-week-old baby “died of an infectious disease … a […]
A Montreal children’s hospital is awaiting the result of tests that will identify the type of mould infection believed to have killed a premature baby in its intensive care unit. On Tuesday, a spokesperson for the Sainte-Justine hospital confirmed that a baby born at 29 weeks died in the neonatal unit 10 days later of […]
EDWARDSVILLE – Southern Illinois University Edwardsville will have to sell bonds to fund its recent mold removal in three residence halls, but the lawsuit against the contractors who built it is still under way. SIUE spent $10 million over the summer to remove mold from three residence halls, including one that just opened in 2001. […]
Mold-Help congratulates the Old Farmer’s Road School in Washington Township for taking the responsibility for admitting to their problems and taking care of the remediation of their school and caring enough about the indoor air quality of the children and school personnel. This is a rare and selfless act and we acknowledge and appreciate their […]
SUMRALL – With one of the problems facing Sumrall Elementary School being overcrowding, many other concerns hinder teachers and students each day. Karen Loftin, a fifth-grade teacher, stuffs a steel wool sponge in a hole in her wall to keep rats from entering the building. She said she is sometimes reluctant to turn on her […]
11/14/02 Olympia, WA – A search for environmental health and structural problems at west Olympia’s Forest Glen Apartments could lead to condemnations, widespread repairs and displaced tenants. A structural engineer and an industrial hygienist hired by the city of Olympia began inspecting apartments in the 116-unit complex’s J building Wednesday. Throughout at least the next 14 […]
11/4/03 Ferndale, MD – New county schools Superintendent Eric J. Smith announced yesterday that students will not attend Ferndale Elementary School after tests he requested earlier this month revealed the building is unsafe. Students and staff at the school in Ferndale will be housed in nearby George T. Cromwell Elementary School for the coming school […]
By Sam Watson, Press Education Writer : Johnson City Press 11/12/03 Johnson City, TN – Sullivan East High School’s mold-inspired stay at Bristol Motor Speedway has increased awareness about the need for mold testing and moisture control in other area school districts, as well as public education and awareness. “I’m getting more educated on this, […]
By Cindy Wojdyla Cain, STAFF WRITER : Chicago Suburban News Nursing Home: Generally good shape, but code violations must be fixed JOLIET – A recent inspection of the Will County-owned Sunny Hill Nursing Home showed the facility is in pretty good shape, but there are 28 city code violations that must be corrected within 30 […]
1st grade teacher, Joyce Harmon, wears a mask over her face when she walks the halls at West Elementary school. She believes there’s mold in the building and it’s making her sick. "When I’m not here, I feel fine and when I’m here, I don’t feel good. So, there has to be a correlation of […]
 
|
 
|
 
|
 
|
 
|
Image by Jonny Lindner from Pixabay 
Image by 
Image by