As students return to public schools this week, Chicago Public Schools should embrace the Sun-Times Editorial Board’s recent suggestion and jumpstart robust detection, remediation and support to schools confronting lead contamination.
Chicago Teachers Union members at Bridgeport’s McClellan Elementary had to purchase their own lead tests to expose the danger to medically fragile students because the mayor (who runs our schools) requires students to schedule their own blood tests. Thankfully, pressure from staff and parents forced CPS to invest $35,000 in building repairs over the holiday break. But this is only one school among hundreds.
