The school year comes to an end next month, COVID-19 isn’t going away, and a new investigation from The Oregonian/OregonLive found many public schools aren’t doing enough to ensure the air students, staff and teachers breathe is as clean as possible.

And that’s not just a COVID problem.   

On the latest episode of Beat Check, investigative reporter Aimee Green discusses her months-long investigation into ventilation and air filtration inside public schools across the Portland metro area.

We talked about why she wanted to look into this issue, how Portland public, the state’s largest school district is falling behind most suburban districts, why it’s not just old buildings that are failing to regularly filter and ventilate classrooms and why this issue is about more than just COVID.

Read the investigation

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