Some children were exposed to lead and investigators found flaking paint inside aging schools. Two federal experts, expected to help guide the response, have lost their jobs. By Julie Bosman ...

Since the 1990s, the state has mandated blood testing of young children for elevated levels of lead, which indicate exposure to the toxic metal through paint, pipes, or other environmental hazards.

Nine schools across the city were found to have degrading, chipping interiors. Kat Cisar, a mother of 6-year-old twins, found out in late February that her kids were potentially being exposed to ...

The district also announced Monday an updated plan to tackle the flaking and chalking paint in aging buildings that’s suspected to be the cause of elevated blood lead levels in four students ...

Milwaukee Public Schools could explore legal options available to the district to "hold lead paint companies accountable" for lead-paint remediation costs in school buildings. Additionally ...

Cleveland’s decades-long failure to address toxic lead paint in homes reached a new low as nearly $12 million in federal grant money is about to slip away unused, prompting Today in Ohio podcast ...

Photos taken inside LaFollette School and Albert E. Kagel School show chipped lead paint on classroom walls, ceilings and furniture. The schools are among seven that have been cleaned overnight or ...

lead paint is far and away the greatest exposure risk. The federal government has banned lead paint since 1978. But in older communities with a larger percentage of housing that largely predates ...

A Helena real estate agent and property manager who admitted to failing to provide lead-based paint disclosures as required to veterans living in housing at Fort Harrison, which resulted in the ...

At least one district child's poisoning has been directly linked to another MPS school, and seven buildings so far have been found with dangerous levels of lead paint and dust. "I think that we ...

(The Center Square) – There continues to be a lot of discussion around Milwaukee Public Schools’ lead paint cleanup, even though little of it is about the actual cleanup. The city’s school ...