By Dan Ivers | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
[…]The comments came after the Newark Teachers Union, which also released the 2014 memo, distributed photos of lead reduction filters bearing installation dates as far back as 2012. The union claims the pictures were taken at 10 schools where water has not been deemed dangerous – which would violate the district’s instructions for filters to be changed roughly every six months.
A photograph supplied by the Newark Teachers Union appears to show a lead reduction filter at a city school was installed in September 2013. (Courtesy of Newark Teachers Union)
John Abeigon, the union’s president and a frequent critic of the state-controlled district, included comments calling them evidence Cerf and other administrators “cannot be trusted to perform the tasks necessary to insure the safety of students and staff.”
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