[CPEO-BIF] Seminole County, Florida schools

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Safe school sites? Only time will tell
Our position: Parents are sure to wonder whether arsenic-tainted sites 
put kids at risk.

OPINION
Orlando Sentinel (FL)
April 29, 2007

Maybe Seminole County School Board member Jeanne Morris would support 
the district adopting as its motto, "What we don't know won't hurt."

She wants the district to stop asking so many nagging questions about 
pollution on school sites, going beyond the testing required by law. It 
turns off potential sellers, and it gets folks all worked up for no good 
reason, she said.

Oh, sure, the extra testing discovered pollutants the district otherwise 
wouldn't have known existed, but that information didn't stop officials 
from agreeing build a school there. So what's the point?

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/opinion/orl-sopin2907apr29,0,7543594.story?coll=orl-opinion-headlines

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org


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