Cps Blunder No Carbon Monoxide Detectors At Prussing School

Having spent the last few days examining what led to last Friday’s calamitous carbon monoxide leak that sickened about 70 students and seven adults at Prussing Elementary School, Alderman John Arena has some simple advice for parents throughout the city: 

                I still can’t get over this oversight. I mean, over the years I’ve seen all kinds of boneheaded moves by CPS officials, mostly having to do with personnel, curriculum, and finances.

      “When the emergency teams entered the building, their carbon monoxide detectors went off,” says Arena, who represents the 45th ward in which Prussing is located.

  Also, the carbon monoxide detector in the boiler room didn’t work, says Arena. 

      Though, if I know CPS, they’d find away to pay hundreds of dollars for an alarm, probably by buying it from some company for whom former CEO Barbara Byrd-Bennett once worked.