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September 2,
2004
Crews Cleaning Up Mold At
Baltimore School
Health Officials To
Retest School For Mold Before Reopening Building
BALTIMORE --
Officials have serious health concerns at a Baltimore City elementary school
just days before students return to the classroom.
The Baltimore
City Health Department said mold has turned up inside Callaway Elementary
School in west Baltimore, WBAL-TV 11 News education reporter Tim Tooten
reported.
Right now,
school officials still hope to open Callaway on time Tuesday, but that
depends on how quickly cleanup crews can get rid of the mold.
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September 2, 2004
San Benito schools’ mold lawsuit settled
By Pallavi Agarwal, The Valley Morning
Star
SAN BENITO, Texas — Three
years after two San Benito campuses were rid of mold, the company that
installed the school district’s heating and cooling systems has agreed to
pay the school district $15 million.
Honeywell International Inc.’s $15 million settlement falls short of the
$180 million in damages and attorney fees that the school district was
seeking in a lawsuit that was headed to trial this week.
But School Board President Oscar De La Fuente, Jr., said that the settlement
would cover a $7 million loan to pay for the mold remediation and save the
district legal fees from a prolonged lawsuit.
The money will also cover
$729,000 the district has paid in interest on the two-year-old loan, and
attorney fees whose percentage is still being worked out, schools interim
superintendent Antonio Limon said.
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