{"id":17509,"date":"2025-06-26T23:06:12","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T23:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/17509\/"},"modified":"2025-06-26T23:06:12","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T23:06:12","slug":"philadelphias-schools-accused-of-failing-to-properly-inspect-asbestos-in-buildings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/17509\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia’s schools accused of failing to properly inspect asbestos in buildings"},"content":{"rendered":"

Authorities said a judge must approve the terms of the deferred prosecution agreement, which avoids a grand jury indictment. If the school district complies with the relevant federal law, the government can eventually drop the charges.<\/p>\n

About 300 of the school district’s aging set of 339 buildings contain asbestos, the U.S. attorney’s office said in a release.<\/p>\n

Asbestos<\/a>, a construction material in wide use until the 1980s, has been linked to cancer and lung disease.<\/p>\n

Investigators said some asbestos was improperly addressed and that schools have had to close<\/a> as a result of asbestos problems. Prosecutors said the “longstanding and widespread problem” put students and teachers in danger.<\/p>\n

The deferred prosecution agreement says the school system has already improved policies, procedures and compliance regarding asbestos inspections and abatement.<\/p>\n

Superintendent Tony B. Watlington Sr. told The Philadelphia Inquirer the deferred prosecution agreement is a sign of the district’s progress in addressing the problem. He noted the district will train workers on asbestos management as part of the deal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Authorities said a judge must approve the terms of the deferred prosecution agreement, which avoids a grand jury…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":17510,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5132],"tags":[16959,5229,16961,16960,1448,2830,1311,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-17509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-ajc-freelancer","tag-america","tag-back-to-school-bash","tag-greenbriar-mall","tag-pa","tag-pennsylvania","tag-philadelphia","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114752178324716279","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}