A Special Education School in Rockaway, NY has threatening levels of asbestos as reported by the Department of Education. Public school 265 caters to students with emotional and learning disorders such as autism.

The school has already been examined back in July and results showed hazardous conditions but teachers and over 100 students still continued to have summer school which only ended last week. Parents had just recently discovered the degree of damage in their children’s school through evidences of rooms with peeling paint, crumbling walls, floors and ceiling tiles that were posted on the Daily News website.

A meeting will be held on August 19th by the Department of Education officials to evaluate the situation and plan for their next course of action. They were also concerned not only with the presence of asbestos which causes pleural Mesothelioma but also of lead in the school premises.

Source: Parents Upset By Asbestos in Special Education School

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