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Community Board 8 ponders toxic
waste, schools and a plan to reshape its schools at at recent meeting
In a recent meeting, the Community Board
serving Kingsbridge, Riverdale and Marble Hill, tried to sort out a lead scare
at a local elementary school and its implications on plans to alter the
community’s school district.
This past November, the agenda at
Community Board 8 centered on the closing of P.S. 37 due to high levels of lead
at the school. Experts have said that the construction of a new EMS dispatching
station on a site adjacent to nearby John F. Kennedy High School is one of the
causes for high counts of the contaminant at P.S. 37. P.S. 37 is next to John F.
Kennedy High.
State
Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz, who was invited to address the meeting, said that
all children who attend P.S. 37 will be provided with free lead testing. At the
same time, he was critical of the decision to close the school and the fact that
parents were alarmed unnecessarily. “We all agree that if there are excessive
levels of lead, we must address the problem immediately, but it appears that
there are people out there,, including members of the School Board, who are
deliberately creating a panic among parents in order to advance their own
political agenda, namely preventing the construction of M.S. 368 and derailing
the M.S. 141 reconstruction plan.”
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