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The following organizations, which represent the nation’s school administrators, school boards, school business officials, teachers, school nurses and parents, are supporting The Quick and Easy Guide to Green Cleaning in Schools by promoting it to their members and making it available at conferences and trainings:
The American Association of School Administrators (AASA), founded in 1865, is the oldest and largest professional organization for more than 13,000 educational leaders across America and in many other countries. These school system leaders are responsible for improving the quality of districts' educational systems and often represent high quality public education in general for the community. In our quest to prepare children for school and prepare schools for children, AASA is committed to removing the barriers that prevent children from succeeding. As Paul D. Houston, AASA executive director has stated, “…healthy indoor air quality in our public schools isn’t just something that would be ‘nice to have.’ As school administrators we know that we have an obligation to deliver every child an equal educational opportunity.” For more information, visit www.aasa.org.
American Federation of Teachers
The American Federation of Teachers, AFL-CIO, strives to improve the lives of our members and their families, to give voice to their legitimate professional, economic and social aspirations, to strengthen the institutions in which we work, to improve the quality of the services we provide, to bring together all members to assist and support one another and to promote democracy, human rights and freedom in our union, in our nation and throughout the world. For more information, visit www.aft.org.
Association of School Business Officials International
The Association of School Business Officials International (ASBO) is a professional organization that provides programs and services to those in school business management. ASBO promotes the highest standards of school business management practices and provides professional growth opportunities. We believe in the most effective use of resources in the education of children. For more information, visit www.asbointl.org.
Council of Educational Facility Planners International (CEFPI)
The Council of Educational Facility Planners International (CEFPI) is the principle non-profit professional organization whose sole purpose is improving the places where children learn. CEFPI’s 3,300 members are committed to building healthy, safe, high-performance educational facilities that enhance student achievement and strengthen communities. Founded in 1921, CEFPI functions as a convening organization to share knowledge, experiences and best practices of planning, designing, building, renovating and maintaining learning environments. Membership includes planners, architects, designers, education administrators, higher education professionals, environmental experts, researchers and facility maintenance and operations professionals. CEFPI’s annual High Performance Schools Symposium, a major international showcase, has solidified the Association’s position as an advocate for green schools. The Council is at the forefront of promoting comprehensive research related to building healthy high-performance schools through strategic alliances with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), McGraw-Hill Construction (MHC) and other industry leaders. For more information on CEFPI and its programs visit www.cefpi.org.
ISSA, The Experts on Cleaning and Maintenance
ISSA is the leading trade association for the institutional and industrial cleaning industry. ISSA’s worldwide membership includes more than 4,800 companies including manufacturers and distributors of cleaning products, in addition to building service contractors and in-house cleaning service providers. Our association members provide cleaning products and services that are ultimately consumed by schools, hospitals, day care centers, food service establishments, hotels, office buildings, retail facilities and other institutional and industrial establishments. In this regard, our membership plays a key role in maintaining the health and sanitation of the built environment.
ISSA and its membership recognize that environmental preferability is the new mantra of the business community as smart companies across all industry sectors use environmental based strategies to innovate, create value, and build competitive advantage, while minimizing their environmental footprint. Recognizing the importance of these trends, ISSA has assumed a leadership role in promoting the widespread adoption of environmentally preferable cleaning products and services, as well as practices that promote the safety and health of workers and other building occupants. For more information, visit www.issa.com.
National Association of Charter School Authorizers
The National Association of Charter School Authorizers (NACSA) is a nonprofit membership organization serving authorizers, the entities that select and oversee the nation’s charter schools. Our members also include charter school advocates and organizations. We are proud to have over 100 of the nation’s largest, most resourceful authorizers as dues-paying members, and our members oversee well over half of the nation’s 4,000 charter schools. Since our founding by seven enterprising authorizers in 2000, the organization has reached out to all 40 charter states and the District of Columbia. NACSA has recently changed its strategic focus to take on more policy interventions and to work in priority states in need of comprehensive services. Our membership and conference attendance grow each year, mirroring the growth of charter schools. NACSA works with local experts to create the conditions needed for quality schools to thrive. We push for high standards for authorizers and the environments in which they work. To learn more, please visit http://www.qualitycharters.org.
National Association of School Nurses
Knowledge, experience, organizational infrastructure and staff of NASN: NASN is the primary, indispensable resource for school nursing and health programs, services, and experiences. The National Association of School Nurses (NASN) is a specialty nursing organization that represents school nurses. It was organized in 1968, incorporated in 1977, and is classified as a not-for-profit organization under section 501c3 of the Internal Revenue Code. With a membership of 14,000 school nurses, NASN’s core purpose is to advance the delivery of professional school health services to promote optimal learning in students. NASN has 51 State Affiliate School Nurse Organizations in 49 states, the District of Columbia, and overseas. NASN communicates with its members through the electronic NASN Weekly Digest News, the bi-monthly NASN Newsletter, the bi-monthly Journal of School Nursing, the NASN web site, www.nasn.org, and information sent to state nurse directors to be directed to the state membership. The NASN staff is comprised of professional nurses with a large variety of experiences, resources and contacts in the field of healthcare.
National Clearinghouse for Educational Facilities
Created in 1997 by the U.S. Department of Education, the National Clearinghouse for Educational Facilities (NCEF) provides information on planning, designing, funding, building, improving, and maintaining safe, healthy, high performance schools. Look for NCEF's resource list of links, books, and journal articles on using environmentally friendly cleaning products and healthier and safer methods for cleaning school buildings. http://www.edfacilities.org/rl/green_cleaning.cfm
National Parent Teacher Association
As the largest volunteer child advocacy association in the nation, National Parent Teacher Association (PTA) reminds our country of its obligations to children and provides parents and families with a powerful voice to speak on behalf of every child while providing the best tools for parents to help their children be successful students.
The National PTA does not work alone. Working in cooperation with many national education, health, safety, and child advocacy groups and federal agencies, National PTA collaborates on projects that benefit children and that bring valuable resources to its members. National PTA recognizes that p oor environmental conditions impact the health of our nation's students and school staff. These problems contribute to absenteeism, student medication use, learning difficulties, sick building syndrome, staff turnover, and greater liability for school districts. These problems demand a strong and sustained partnership of federal, state, and local entities working together. States and schools cannot address their problems alone and equity in education must be a national priority. Modern, safe, and healthy education facilities for all students now will result in a better-educated, more informed, more productive population in the future. For more information, visit www.pta.org.
National Association of State Boards of Education
The National Association of State Boards of Education (NASBE) represents state-level boards of education and works to strengthen state leadership in educational policymaking, promote excellence in the education for all students, advocate equality of access to educational opportunities, and assure continued citizen support for public education. NASBE is currently funded by CDC's Division of Adolescent and School Health to provide capacity-building assistance to state and local education policymakers and practitioners relating to: 1) HIV prevention policy and program improvement initiatives, and 2) establishing, maintaining, and evaluating healthy school nutrition programs. NASBE's widely-used publication "Fit, Healthy, and Ready to Learn: A School Health Policy Guide" includes a chapter published in 2005 on "Policies Concerning Asthma, School Health Services, and Healthy Environments." For more information, visit www.nasbe.org/HealthySchools/fithealthy.html.
National School Plant Management Association
The National School Plant Management Association (NSPMA), chartered in 1995, was formed in the interest of enhancing and promoting the educational process. Its purpose is to provide for the exchange of information that improves school plant management, maintenance and care through the promotion of acceptable policies, standards and practices; and to promote the professional advancement of school plant management personnel. Membership includes school superintendents, maintenance personnel, custodial supervisors, and others employed in school operations. For more information, visit www.nspma.org.
Parents for Public Schools
Parents for Public Schools (PPS) is a national organization of community-based chapters in 14 states, organizing parents and communities to support public education and improvement of public schools for all children. PPS supports quality public education and improved public schools “in and for the common good” as essential for building and sustaining our communities and our democracy. Parents for Public Schools believes that public education, accessible to all, is essential for building participatory democracy. PPS conducts parent leadership training to enable parent engagement in local schools and parent advocacy for improved public schools. Contact PPS: www.parents4publicschools.com, by e-mail at ppschapter@parents4publicschools.com and by phone at 800-880-1222.
Public Education Network (PEN)
Public Education Network (PEN)is a national association of local education funds (LEFs) and individuals working to advance public school reform in low-income communities across our country. PEN believes an active, vocal constituency is the key to ensuring that every child, in every community, benefits from a quality public education. PEN and its members are building public demand and mobilizing resources for quality public education on behalf of 11 million children in more that 1,600 school districts in 33 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. PEN has expanded its work internationally to include members in the Philippines, Peru and Mexico. Visit http://www.publiceducation.org to learn more.
The American Association of School Administrators (AASA), founded in 1865, is the oldest and largest professional organization for more than 13,000 educational leaders across America and in many other countries. These school system leaders are responsible for improving the quality of districts' educational systems and often represent high quality public education in general for the community. In our quest to prepare children for school and prepare schools for children, AASA is committed to removing the barriers that prevent children from succeeding. As Paul D. Houston, AASA executive director has stated, “…healthy indoor air quality in our public schools isn’t just something that would be ‘nice to have.’ As school administrators we know that we have an obligation to deliver every child an equal educational opportunity.” For more information, visit 
The American Federation of Teachers, AFL-CIO, strives to improve the lives of our members and their families, to give voice to their legitimate professional, economic and social aspirations, to strengthen the institutions in which we work, to improve the quality of the services we provide, to bring together all members to assist and support one another and to promote democracy, human rights and freedom in our union, in our nation and throughout the world. For more information, visit 
The Association of School Business Officials International (ASBO) is a professional organization that provides programs and services to those in school business management. ASBO promotes the highest standards of school business management practices and provides professional growth opportunities. We believe in the most effective use of resources in the education of children. For more information, visit 
The Council of Educational Facility Planners International (CEFPI) is the principle non-profit professional organization whose sole purpose is improving the places where children learn. CEFPI’s 3,300 members are committed to building healthy, safe, high-performance educational facilities that enhance student achievement and strengthen communities. Founded in 1921, CEFPI functions as a convening organization to share knowledge, experiences and best practices of planning, designing, building, renovating and maintaining learning environments. Membership includes planners, architects, designers, education administrators, higher education professionals, environmental experts, researchers and facility maintenance and operations professionals. CEFPI’s annual High Performance Schools Symposium, a major international showcase, has solidified the Association’s position as an advocate for green schools. The Council is at the forefront of promoting comprehensive research related to building healthy high-performance schools through strategic alliances with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), McGraw-Hill Construction (MHC) and other industry leaders. For more information on CEFPI and its programs visit 
ISSA is the leading trade association for the institutional and industrial cleaning industry. ISSA’s worldwide membership includes more than 4,800 companies including manufacturers and distributors of cleaning products, in addition to building service contractors and in-house cleaning service providers. Our association members provide cleaning products and services that are ultimately consumed by schools, hospitals, day care centers, food service establishments, hotels, office buildings, retail facilities and other institutional and industrial establishments. In this regard, our membership plays a key role in maintaining the health and sanitation of the built environment.
The National Association of Charter School Authorizers (NACSA) is a nonprofit membership organization serving authorizers, the entities that select and oversee the nation’s charter schools. Our members also include charter school advocates and organizations. We are proud to have over 100 of the nation’s largest, most resourceful authorizers as dues-paying members, and our members oversee well over half of the nation’s 4,000 charter schools. Since our founding by seven enterprising authorizers in 2000, the organization has reached out to all 40 charter states and the District of Columbia. NACSA has recently changed its strategic focus to take on more policy interventions and to work in priority states in need of comprehensive services. Our membership and conference attendance grow each year, mirroring the growth of charter schools. NACSA works with local experts to create the conditions needed for quality schools to thrive. We push for high standards for authorizers and the environments in which they work. To learn more, please visit 
Knowledge, experience, organizational infrastructure and staff of NASN: NASN is the primary, indispensable resource for school nursing and health programs, services, and experiences. The National Association of School Nurses (NASN) is a specialty nursing organization that represents school nurses. It was organized in 1968, incorporated in 1977, and is classified as a not-for-profit organization under section 501c3 of the Internal Revenue Code. With a membership of 14,000 school nurses, NASN’s core purpose is to advance the delivery of professional school health services to promote optimal learning in students. NASN has 51 State Affiliate School Nurse Organizations in 49 states, the District of Columbia, and overseas. NASN communicates with its members through the electronic NASN Weekly Digest News, the bi-monthly NASN Newsletter, the bi-monthly Journal of School Nursing, the NASN web site, 
Created in 1997 by the U.S. Department of Education, the National Clearinghouse for Educational Facilities (NCEF) provides information on planning, designing, funding, building, improving, and maintaining safe, healthy, high performance schools. Look for NCEF's resource list of links, books, and journal articles on using environmentally friendly cleaning products and healthier and safer methods for cleaning school buildings. 
As the largest volunteer child advocacy association in the nation, National Parent Teacher Association (PTA) reminds our country of its obligations to children and provides parents and families with a powerful voice to speak on behalf of every child while providing the best tools for parents to help their children be successful students. 
The National Association of State Boards of Education (NASBE) represents state-level boards of education and works to strengthen state leadership in educational policymaking, promote excellence in the education for all students, advocate equality of access to educational opportunities, and assure continued citizen support for public education. NASBE is currently funded by CDC's Division of Adolescent and School Health to provide capacity-building assistance to state and local education policymakers and practitioners relating to: 1) HIV prevention policy and program improvement initiatives, and 2) establishing, maintaining, and evaluating healthy school nutrition programs. NASBE's widely-used publication "Fit, Healthy, and Ready to Learn: A School Health Policy Guide" includes a chapter published in 2005 on "Policies Concerning Asthma, School Health Services, and Healthy Environments." For more information, visit 
The National School Plant Management Association (NSPMA), chartered in 1995, was formed in the interest of enhancing and promoting the educational process. Its purpose is to provide for the exchange of information that improves school plant management, maintenance and care through the promotion of acceptable policies, standards and practices; and to promote the professional advancement of school plant management personnel. Membership includes school superintendents, maintenance personnel, custodial supervisors, and others employed in school operations. For more information, visit 
Parents for Public Schools (PPS) is a national organization of community-based chapters in 14 states, organizing parents and communities to support public education and improvement of public schools for all children. PPS supports quality public education and improved public schools “in and for the common good” as essential for building and sustaining our communities and our democracy. Parents for Public Schools believes that public education, accessible to all, is essential for building participatory democracy. PPS conducts parent leadership training to enable parent engagement in local schools and parent advocacy for improved public schools. Contact PPS: 
Public Education Network (PEN)is a national association of local education funds (LEFs) and individuals working to advance public school reform in low-income communities across our country. PEN believes an active, vocal constituency is the key to ensuring that every child, in every community, benefits from a quality public education. PEN and its members are building public demand and mobilizing resources for quality public education on behalf of 11 million children in more that 1,600 school districts in 33 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. PEN has expanded its work internationally to include members in the Philippines, Peru and Mexico. Visit