Schools don't publish real-time indoor AQI so parents fly blind on recess decisions

Parents in smoke-affected cities like Boise, Sacramento, and Medford cannot determine whether their child's specific school building has adequate HVAC filtration because individual schools do not publish real-time indoor air quality readings. Districts make blanket outdoor-recess cancellation decisions based on a single outdoor AQI monitor that may be miles from the school, but say nothing about what children are breathing inside 30-year-old portable classrooms with no MERV-13 filters. Parents of asthmatic children face an impossible choice: keep the child home (losing a work day and the child falling behind), or send them and hope the building is filtered. This persists because indoor air quality monitoring hardware costs $200-500 per classroom, school facility budgets are already stretched thin, and no state requires schools to monitor or report indoor AQI.