CPS to hold community meetings about lead in schools' water
Posted June 14, 2016 11:00 pm
As Chicago Public Schools added four elementary schools to its list of those with elevated lead levels Tuesday, the district also announced a series of community meetings about lead problems.
All four schools whose results became available failed tests for safe amounts of lead in their drinking water, bringing the district's total up to 23 schools that have shut off drinking fountains or sinks or both.
So far, CPS has gotten results back from 78 schools; about 30 percent of those schools have elevated levels of lead in their water.
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