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More Schools Testing For Lead As Parents Demand Information
Tests last summer showed troubling levels of lead in the water at Summit Township Elementary School, perched on a quiet hilltop outside Butler, Pa. But for the next five months, no one told the parents of Summit鈥檚 250 students. When officials alerted families to the potential lead contamination in January, the dominoes fell quickly. (Dennis, 4/30)
Last year, with fears about lead poisoning running high in the wake of the water crisis in Flint, Mich., New York City officials said that they had tested the water in all the city鈥檚 public schools and that the results should be reassuring: Only 1 percent of outlets had lead levels above the Environmental Protection Agency鈥檚 action level of 15 parts per billion. (Taylor, 4/28)