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Radio Extra: Is Lead Paint Still a Problem in CPS Schools?

October 23, 2014 3:50pm | Updated October 23, 2014 3:50pm
Peeling paint in a Gale Math and Science Academy classroom.
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Chicago Light Brigade

ROGERS PARK — Documents revealing that CPS officials knew there was lead paint at a North Side school five years before removing it have some neighborhood activists concerned there could be more schools affected. 

But CPS spokesperson Bill McCaffery says that the buildings are continually monitored to "prevent any buildings with lead-based paints from posing a health threat."

On today's DNAinfo Radio Extra, Ben Woodard digs into records obtained by the Chicago Light Brigade, and what CPS says they're doing about the paint:

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