How Integrated Pest Management Can Help Schools

The Department of Pesticide Regulation (DPR) continues to work with school districts to make integrated pest management (IPM) the preferred way to manage pests. DPR offers IPM training workshops each year throughout the state, maintains a School IPM Web site and produces a variety of documents with information about IPM and alternatives to using pesticides in schools.

Enclosed you will find the document How IPM Can Help Schools (in color as well as black and white versions) that has information about the Healthy Schools Act and what DPR does to help school districts use IPM. To provide you the most recent information about the Healthy Schools Act, we have updated our Frequently Asked Questions document (enclosed; color and black and white versions).

You can download How IPM Can Help Schools by going to our School IPM Web site at /docs/schoolipm/ and then clicking on “Overview/How IPM Can Help Schools” in the column on the left. To download the Frequently Asked Questions, go to /docs/schoolipm/ and then click on “FAQs” in the column on the right.

If you have any questions about these documents or if you would like more information about our program, please free to contact Dr. Brattesani at (916) 324-4082.

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