Oshkosh students to other building after mold was found

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Oshkosh students to other building after mold was found

(Published Tuesday, February 05, 2002 9:53:06 AM CST)

Associated Press

OSHKOSH, Wis. -- Some elementary school students will spend the next few

weeks at a middle school after mold was found in their building.

Oshkosh school district officials are waiting for results from tests on the

mold found at Sunset Elementary School. The district decided over the

weekend to bus nearly 65 kindergarten and first-grade Sunset students to

another school for at least two weeks.

Oshkosh's American Air Environmental cleaned three rooms Friday after the

mold was found.

School board members are considering a construction plan that would close

Sunset and bus its students to a larger elementary school. The board will

review the plan at its Feb. 13 meeting.

Most of the mold found at Sunset is common in buildings, said Colleen

McDermott, head of the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh's biology and

microbiology department.

" Most of it is not really dangerous -- they are common in the environment, "

said McDermott, who specializes in mold's health effects.

Schools in Madison, Sheboygan and Sun Prairie also have reported problems

with mold this school year.