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NYC 9/11 Public Portal Document

Toxic find sparks ; Stu^ MS oust-up Sy CAtl CAMPANILE that the Board of Educa­ “This is a poteafUl Education RafMtltr tion knew about this sit­ health hazard,” -aid uation since October. Howard Bader, an eny|T, Stuyvesant HS’s venti­ Our students have been ronmental coBstiltaisifo lation system has - exposed to this for nine hired by the Parent ' >■ tured concentrations of inoaths.” elation. gd’ lead —, believed to be Christodoulou also ^ac­ He stopped short dfy from the World Trade cused the board of refus­ caling on the board -Mg ■ Center collapse — that ing to release the data close Stiiyvesant witlft- are 30 times higher than until she threatened legal just two weeks left io the acceptable federal limits, action — a claim denied session. recent Board of Educa­ by school officials. Schools ' Chancellojc tion tests found. The Environmental Harold Levy’s office in­ It’s foe first time Protection Agency sisted Stuyvesant is safI school officials have deems levels of lead and blasted parents’ use tested the school's venti­ above 40 micrograms per of the data as irresponsif lation system. square foot as unaccept­ ble, But the same round of able for children nnaer “This is disingenuous tests found negligible the age of 6. and specious,” said Levff l levels of lead-laden dust The average readings spokesw’oraaa Catie Mam J' Inside the school. of lead in Stuyvesant’s shall. “They’re making I A parent leader said 300 classroom-ventila­ noise about som the results fro® the tion waits was 1,174,89 that is not can ■ • classroom ventilators are microerams — neariy 30 ronmental problems in T times nigher. the school. c^use for alarm because Levels of lead in other "The ventilation sys? L , they could be released parts of the school, such terns are supposed ’tefi into classes. Exposure to as hallways aad the gym, trap the dust, Tne lead isf' ' lead dost caa cause irre­ were much tower — an not inside the build versible brain, Derwm- average of 89 micro- is physically insid system and Organ .dam­ ' grams per sguare foot .i-.o-tv X. i«-.- age. Christodoiilou _ said wall. None of ®is s. to' - “We have extremely parents will continwe to getting inside the Iwild- t, hil^ levels of lead press their demand for mg." tlreaghaiit .the veatil*- school officials to do a .tio» sfifom,** said Mari- better jpb cleaaiag the Jena clristodouloo, fcr- ventflaiioa units and to Tmer 'Stnyvosant Parent instaU more stripgeat fil­ smalt As§ocja8pB,>resideat:. ters to prevent lead from ./ P, 17 “What’s .otttrageotts is entelng the achool.

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