toxic big island school grounds

[leilanidude]

if I had, it would have been to do more lead testing in children to determine whether the lead levels had any correlation to the schools that they attended AND to make an effort to identify the major sources of lead before committing $10? $20M, $??M (you don't think these contractors are going to answer their phones for less than a couple mil per site do you?) to lead remediation at these schools without any clear evidence that that effort would actually provide a benefit to the children that are suffering the effects of lead exposure. I agree, it's only taxpayer dollars, and there's always more where those came from, but ignorant fool that I may be, I wouldn't object to a little bit of cost-benefit analysis.
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Agree - Why spend the money if you do not even know if it is an issue? Many of these kids live in homes built quite some time ago when lead paint was used. That is the more likely source.