Parents and staff urge district to release testing data and do source testing after PCB concerns at South Shore
Public commenters raised health concerns linked to possible PCB exposure in a South Shore Elementary classroom and urged district-wide source testing; the district said contractor Apex conducted workplace testing but some requested data are confidential at the bargaining table, prompting calls for fuller transparency.
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During public comment, JD Wright read a statement on behalf of a former South Shore music teacher describing years of unexplained medical symptoms and urging the district to conduct source testing of PCBs at South Shore and elsewhere in the district. Wright said teachers and families deserve “answers” and criticized testing that only produced reassuring results in sampled locations.
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