Philadelphia parents are expressing concerns after learning yet another district school has been temporarily closed due to asbestos.
Remediation efforts are underway Thursday night inside a Philadelphia high school after an inspection this week revealed exposed asbestos.Building 21, a high school in West Oak Lane which was built in 1915, shut its doors Wednesday after the cancer-causing minerals were discovered exposed in the auditorium and stairwells during a routine check.
According to the 6abc Data Journalism team, since 2016, there have been 2,289 asbestos abatement projects across the School District of Philadelphia; 1,675 of those have occurred at schools with elementary-aged children."It's reprehensible that so many of our buildings are over 100 years old and they have been neglected because of the lack of the appropriate money in the budget in order to maintain," said Jerry Jordan, president of the Philadelphia Federation of Teachers.
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