The Safety and Environmental Office of the Jefferson County Public Schools in Louisville officially kicks off a program to install "No Idle" signs in school car pick up lanes, while educating staff and parents on reducing air pollution.
With this initiative JCPS continues to build on other healthy schools programs. Among these are a current "no idle" policy on school buses, a Green Cleaning Products program in all 165 schools/facilities, an enhanced IPM pest control program, a continuing science safety inspection of all science classrooms, a successful science chemical cleanout
program, the adoption of the NIOSH Chemistry Laboratory Safety Guide as the district's chemical hygiene plan for science laboratories, the elimination of trans fat and fried foods from served lunches, an expanded school nurse
