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Jun 27, 2024 · To date, approximately 127 schools in the state have been tested out of over 300 that are scheduled. In 2020, Burlington High School was shuttered due to PCB contamination so extensive that the ...
Sep 11, 2024 · The Weeks School closed in 1979 and was replaced seven years later by Woodside, a 30-bed jail-like building in Essex. The facility was run and regulated by DCF. In Woodside’s final years, lawsuits , regulatory reports and news stories detailed instances of abuse, unlawful restraint and dangerous conditions at the facility.
- PCBs Are Everywhere
- PCB Risk to Chittenden County Students
- Vermont School Conditions Assessed
- National and Scientific Remedies
PCBs, or Polychlorinated Biphenyls, aren't tested for regularly but are everywhere — in the air you breathe, in the food you eat and in most schools and municipal buildings built within the 30 years before they were banned in 1979. "When people look, they tend to find it, especially in schools," said Robert Herrick, a Harvard professor of Public He...
The Free Press reached out to the eight public school districts within Chittenden County and found that out of the 46 school buildings, 37 were originally built between 1950 and 1979 when PCB usage in schools was most prolific. Of the seven that were built before 1950, five had a major addition or renovation during the period. Burlington High Schoo...
The Vermont Legislature plans to combat problems with school building infrastructure and hazardous chemicals with a bill, H.426, currently before the governor, which would assess needs across the state and reinstate school construction funding. The construction program was dissolved in 2007 owing to accumulated state debt from previous projects tha...
Awareness of the issue and efforts to address the problem have increased nationally. New York City schools replaced light ballasts in 883 public school buildings in 2016 to the tune of $800 million after discovering PCBs in 80% of tests. Supermodel Cindy Crawford put her voice behind the issue when her children's Malibu school was affected in 2014....
- April Barton
- Youth Forward Reporter
Jun 20, 2023 · Vermont is the only state in the country that’s testing all of its older school buildings for PCBs, a class of industrial chemicals that were used in building materials, and which are known to cause cancer. The testing started last year, and it’s proven to be more complicated, and expensive, than originally thought.
Jan 17, 2024 · AOE and Vermont School Safety Center: Updated Guidance Regarding Egress Evacuation and Options Based Response Drills for the 2023-2024 Academic Year (2023) Report completed drills using AOE’sDrill Reporting Tool Effective August 1, 2023
Oct 27, 2022 · But Vermont, which halted nearly all state aid for school construction in 2007, is one of nearly a dozen states that offers virtually no money for improving school facilities. Though Burlington ...
Sep 24, 2020 · In July 2019, the Burlington school district made a discovery that, more than a year later, would shut down Burlington High School: There were PCBs — cancer-causing chemicals — in the building ...
