CPS says it fixed every lead paint hazard it found this year, but work at some schools hasn’t been completed, records show

Kelly Harmon, a special education teacher at McClellan Elementary School in Bridgeport. Deteriorating lead paint was found in her classrooms twice. It took CPS months to remove it both times, records show. (Marc Monaghan / WBEZ)

Teachers and other staff members at McClellan Elementary School in Bridgeport complained for months last fall about peeling lead paint and the hazard it posed for students.

Finally, after months of pushing for action and news coverage and after teachers tested the paint on their own and found lead, Chicago Public Schools officials had the dangerous paint removed over winter break.