Hundreds of thousands of minority students attend schools near toxic contaminated sites

Evidence

A 2001 study by the Center for Health, Environment and Justice entitled “Kids at Risk—Toxic Schools: Creating Safe Learning Zones” revealed that more than 600,000 mostly poor and minority-group students in Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, Michigan, and California were attending nearly twelve hundred public schools located within half a mile of a federal Superfund-or state-identified contaminated site.2 — Harriet A. Washington, A Terrible Thing to Waste, 1038

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Harriet A. Washington, A Terrible Thing to Waste, 1038
• XREF: connects to: Race, not income, best predicts where toxic waste sites are located — Harriet A. Washington, A Terrible Thing to Waste, 465; Perceived safety, including from nature, physiologically switches off chronic stress responses — Harriet A. Washington, A Terrible Thing to Waste, 1226