The United Federation of Teachers and the Department of Education’s World Trade Center health-awareness program, aimed at reaching nearly 20,000 former public-school students who may have been exposed to potentially deadly toxins, attracted only about 50 people to the inaugural session at the union’s lower Manhattan headquarters Oct. 28.
After months of negotiations, the UFT and DOE have committed to a national outreach campaign to find former city students who attended classes and may be at risk of contracting a World Trade Center-related illness because they attended one of the 29 schools in the WTC contamination zone from Sept. 11, 2001 through the rest of that school year in 2002.
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