[CPEO-BIF] "Board President Van White responds to concerns about building housing city and charter schools, " Rochester, New York

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Board President Van White responds to concerns about building housing city and charter schools 

By TIANNA MANON
WXXI Public Radio (Rochester, NY)_
December 8, 2017 

Rochester School Board President Van White has a message for anyone concerned about 690 Saint Paul Street. He says until the data shows otherwise, the building is safe.

“Monroe County Department of Health, again, these are people who get degrees and research and understand it. They’re not educators in this building. I’m not the one making the call saying the building is safe. These folks have degrees and have looked at this kind of thing. They're saying it’s safe.”

All City High and Rochester Prep Elementary School are both located at the building. Students and staff have expressed concerns that the school, a brownfield site, is negatively impacting their health. They reportedly blame the site for cancer diagnoses, ectopic pregnancies and respiratory diseases. 

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For the entire article, see
http://wxxinews.org/post/board-president-van-white-responds-concerns-about-building-housing-city-and-charter-schools

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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