Florida Schools Are Cleaning Up in Effort To Cut Pesticide Usage
Cocoa Beach, Fla.
Cockroaches may make most people's skin crawl, but it's the pesticides many schools use to kill them that Kimberly Boyd wants to avoid.
The 16-year-old student says she developed such debilitating health problems from pesticide exposure during elementary school that she had to give up outdoor sports and attend classes in a special wing of the school.
Now a high school junior, Ms. Boyd says she can breathe easier since school leaders in this coastal town adopted a program three years ago to curtail the use...
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