Source: LaTimes.com

Faculty at Troy High School and La Habra High School in Orange County, California have asked their district's school board members to enact new procedures to protect employees and students during renovations to remove asbestos from the school's buildings. Teachers at the schools are notifying officials of many incidents where they felt their health and that of the students' has been compromised. A teacher from Troy High School found a bundle of "large, plastic-wrapped bags marked with the words 'danger' and 'asbestos' sitting near equipment that circulates air in the building." Another teacher from Troy said she developed asthma, chest pain and bronchitis during recent renovations.

Faculty members from each of the two schools have signed separate petitions to the school board to address these and other concerns.

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