The Bay Area Air District Board of Directors has approved sending $4 million to communities around the region to support home and school air filtration programs. At its Wednesday meeting, the Board authorized up to $1.3 million of air filtration upgrades to public schools in Richmond, North Richmond, San Pablo and Tara Hills. Around $1.7 million will go to expanding similar upgrades in schools in the Bayview and Hunters Point neighborhoods in San Francisco. Another $1 million will go to the air district’s home air filtration program. “These upgrades will provide safer, healthier classrooms, which are essential to student learning and well-being,” Philip Fine, the district’s executive officer, said in a statement. “This action reflects our agency’s commitment to environmental justice by red

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