More than 1.7 million children across the state spend 1,000-plus hours a year in school buildings.

A new report from an environmental health nonprofit based in North Point Breeze warns that too many of those buildings are exposing students and staff to serious environmental health risks.

“The findings today that we're sharing are not abstract statistics,” Michelle Naccarati-Chapkis, executive director of Women for a Healthy Environment (WHE), said during a Wednesday webinar discussing her group’s study. “They certainly represent the daily reality for” Pennsylvanian schoolchildren.

The group’s 2025 State of the Schools Report, unveiled during the webinar, pulls together public data from districts across Pennsylvania to show how outdated buildings, poor air quality, unsafe drinking water

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