Parents appeal cell towers at MontCo schools | Rachel Baye | Education | Washington Examiner

A group of Montgomery County parents say the county's Board of Education violated state law by renting public school property to cell phone companies for cell towers.The group, which includes members of the Parents' Coaltion of Montgomery County, is appealing to the Maryland Board of Education the county school board's June decision to grant six of the leases. To date, Montgomery County has signed 29 leases with companies such as T-Mobile, Verizon and Cingular on 12 sites across the county, said Lesli Maxwell, spokeswoman for Montgomery County Public Schools... 

...But "there is just not enough financial incentive to convince me to take the safety risk where kids are still growing," said school board Laura Berthiaume, who voted against putting a cell phone tower at Capt. James E. Daly Elementary School...

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