Jersey City Reporter: A lead on lead in schools

A lead on lead in schools

Parents want info ASAP; Board of Ed gives results

	THEY WANT ANSWERS – Members of Parents and Communities United for Education, a Jersey City grassroots organization, want lead testing in Jersey City public schools to finish before the end of the school year.

Parents of Jersey City schoolchildren want answers immediately about the lead levels in drinking water in the Jersey City public schools.

Members of Parents and Communities United for Education, a local grassroots organization, have petitioned School Superintendent Dr. Epps and members of the Board of Education in recent weeks to speed up water testing so that it can be done in time to tell parents from all schools about the results before the end of the school year.

They also want the results to be posted on the Jersey City Board of Education Web site (www.jcboe.org).

The testing is being done voluntarily by the Jersey City school system in all 45 of the city's public school buildings due to reports in January about the high level of lead in drinking water found at six schools (Schools 11, 23, 31, 6, 27, and 25).

Local newspaper articles said that some administrators in the school district knew about the lead problem for over a year in those schools, but did not tell parents.


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