East Chicago (Ind.) school officials have closed Gosch Elementary School because the grounds are contaminated.
A week before classes are to resume, the East Chicago (Ind.) district is shutting down an elementary school because the grounds are contaminated with lead.
WBBM-TV reports that the last-minute closing of Carrie Gosch Elementary School is displacing an estimated 430 students. Superintendent Paige McNulty and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency officials told families Monday that soil on a part of the school grounds is contaminated with lead.