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Gary Community School Corp. Hearing Set for February 3rd

GARY - The Gary Community School Corporation is getting an opportunity to respond the citations brought against it for violation of the city of Gary's unsafe building ordinance.  

 
Michael Gonzalez, Communications Director for the City of Gary says at the beginning of the year Mayor Jerome Prince went to nine different former schools in Gary to inspect them for the city's unsafe building ordinance, which is modeled after state law, Gonzalez says.  Inspectors soon discovered the schools were unsafe.
 
The unsafe buildings law will effect ten schools including Norton, Emerson, Horace Mann, Lew Wallace, Edison, Ernie Pyle, George Carver, Novelle, Spalding and Brunswick. 
 

Sharon Jackson is the local host of "All Things Considered" and a reporter for Lakeshore Public Radio. She has been with 89.1 FM since its launch in 2009. Sharon is also a radio DJ in Chicago, and has been since 2004. In her previous job at Metro Networks/Westwood One, she was heard on am 890 WLS, WGN radio 720 am and am 560 WIND. She has also delivered news and traffic reports on radio stations all over Chicago and the suburbs including 95.9 The River, 98.3 WCCQ and Star 96.7.