Teachers Plan Asbestos Study
United Press International
WASHINGTON —
The nation’s biggest teachers’ union, saying the Reagan Administration is moving too slowly, announced plans today to determine for itself the extent of cancer-causing asbestos in public schools.
The National Education Assn. said it will conduct a survey this summer and use the results to pressure local governments to remove the hazard and to push the government to pay for the bulk of the estimated $3-billion job.
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