California Safe Schools is a Children's Environmental Health Environmental Justice Coalition http://www.calisafe.org
Robina Suwol is the founder and Executive Director of California Safe Schools, a celebrated children's environmental health and justice coalition founded in 1998.
California Safe Schools (CSS) successfully spearheaded the most stringent schools pesticide use policy in the nation, Integrated Pest Management (IPM), at the Los Angeles Unified School District. IPM uses low risk methods to eradicate insects, weeds and other pests, eliminating a major source of indoor and outdoor pollution. It was the first in the United States to embrace the "Precautionary Principle" and "Right to Know" about pesticides used on school campuses. The success of the Los Angeles Unified policy led to California Legislation, Healthy Schools Act 2000.
On October 6, 2005, Governor Schwarzenegger signed AB 405 (Montanez) sponsored by California Safe Schools. This important law closes a loophole thus protecting more than 6 million California k-12 public school students, and hundreds of thousands of teachers and school employees from exposure to experimental pesticides whose health effects are unknown.
CSS also has worked extensively on local and national School Siting Guidelines
"California Safe Schools is committed to ensuring that all students, teachers, staff, and community members who live near school sites are in a safe toxic-free environment
