States Put No Limits On Use Of Portable Classrooms

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Workers at Blazer Industries push a half-built portable classroom out the door of the modular building manufacturing plant in Aumsville, Oregon.
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Workers at Blazer Industries push a half-built portable classroom out the door of the modular building manufacturing plant in Aumsville, Oregon.
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Westview High School in Beaverton has a village of 16 portable classrooms in a parking lot next to the main building.
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Washington holds new schools to numerous environmental standards, but those don't apply to portable classrooms.
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Montclair Elementary in Beaverton has a portable classroom that was built in 1969.
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Several teachers reported feeling unusually sick inside these portable classrooms at Northeast Portland's Scott School.
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