[CPEO-BIF] Tar Creek school (OK)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Tar Creek: Decision Due: School district's fate up to voters
The Picher-Cardin district in the abandoned mining site could be annexed 
to nearby schools.

By ANGEL RIGGS
Tulsa World (OK)
December 14, 2006


OKLAHOMA CITY -- Picher and Cardin voters will decide in February 
whether to close the communities' consolidated school, which sits in 
Picher amid the abandoned Tar Creek mining district considered one of 
the nation's most contaminated areas.

State Superintendent Sandy Garrett on Wednesday called for the election 
-- set for Feb. 13 -- in which voters will decide whether to annex the 
district to nearby Commerce and Quapaw districts.

The Picher-Cardin school board voted earlier this month to ask Garrett 
to make the request.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.tulsaworld.com/NewsStory.asp?ID=061214_Ne_A1_Schoo61113

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org


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