(The Center Square) – Milwaukee Public Schools are getting some better news as it gets ready to open for the new school year.

New Superintendent Brenda Cassellius took city leaders and reporters on a tour of one of the newly cleaned lead-tainted schools in the city.

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“I know that there’s some that didn’t think we would get it done but we had a great team in here,” Cassellius said of the work at the Auer Avenue School.

Auer Avenue is one of 30 schools that crews cleaned over the summer. Cassellius said she hopes to have as many as 50 schools cleared of lead by the time students report to the firs

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