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School leaders urge state to cover PCB testing and remediation costs, pause expansion until funding secured
Summary
Principals and superintendents told the committee PCB testing and mitigation are consuming district staff time and budgets; they asked the state to fund testing/mitigation and to avoid expanding testing without a reimbursement plan for districts already identified.
School officials told the Senate Education Committee on Jan. 24 that polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) testing and remediation have become a major operational burden for districts and that the state should assume mitigation costs.
Why it matters: Witnesses said districts already identified with PCB issues are incurring ongoing testing and mitigation…
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