How promised classroom units ended up in storage and how to fix it
Adapted from a section of our McDaniel High School Air Quality Report, this summary outlines the history of the 3,500 free air purifiers PPS received from the Oregon Health Authority and the district’s flawed air purifier distribution memo that has resulted in thousands of these units being stored instead of used in classrooms.
This document explains what happened under previous district leadership, highlights key errors in the planning and communication, and outlines practical ways PPS’s new leadership can correct course and place these units as intended: as a second air purifier in classrooms and other select school spaces. This clean air infrastructure should be distributed to PPS schools using data-driven placement plans and run daily alongside the current first air purifier in classrooms, libraries, cafeterias, kitchens, and other school spaces. Two air purifiers per classroom are critical to protect student and staff health in nearly all PPS schools. Leaving them in storage leaves PPS classrooms with too little clean air.
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