Lead paint in schools Q&A
Posted by Judy Breck on November 15, 2007
The good news is, as you will learn in this Q&A, that schools built after 1992 probably do not have a lead paint problem. Schools built before 1978 probably DO have hazardous lead paint. Schools built in the intervening years could or could not — depending on whether they were painted with any of the old stocks of leaded paint that were used up after the 1978 ban on paint containing more than 0.06 percent lead.
Reading through nine questions and answers from the Natural Resources Defense Council will give you more information for discovering if your school has lead paint hazards.
