Lead Paint in Schools
The Reverend Elston McCowan, a Green Party candidate for Mayor of St. Louis next year, speaks out about the prevalence of lead paint in the St. Louis school system in this AP piece in the Missourian:
[McCowan] said people have known for decades that exposing children to lead could harm them. Lead paint has been banned for residential use since 1978, but is still present in older buildings.
“We don’t want to be apathetic about a problem just because somebody hasn’t solved it,” he said.
The article paints an ugly picture of the state of lead paint in schools in America.
