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Barack Obama Elementary School in Richmond, Virginia, will remain closed indefinitely due to concerns over noticeable levels of mold in the building, WRIC ABC 8News reported Monday.<\/p>\n

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Richmond Public Schools (RPS) Chief Operations Officer Patrick Herrel directed people to exit the building on Monday and said that the school would be shutting its doors, 8News reported. Multiple individuals inside the school at the time, including some parents, confirmed to the outlet that they noticed mold in the building, such as on laptops that had been kept in storage there during the summer. (RELATED: How Teachers Unions Help Turn Schools Into Leftist Activist Pipeline, Starting In Kindergarten)<\/strong><\/p>\n

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RPS Superintendent Jason Kamras said in a statement released Monday that the school\u2019s teachers and staff had \u201cfound additional areas of mold growth\u201d in some areas of the building, such as \u201cbehind bulletin board paper.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cOut of an abundance of caution, we decided to send everyone home so we could thoroughly re-clean the newly identified areas and perform additional antimicrobial fogging,\u201d Kamras said. \u201cWe will then retest every single room in the school.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cAll of this is realistically going to take several days,\u201d he continued. \u201cSo we will not be returning to the Obama building this week. Our goal is to do so by Monday. In the interim, we are working to get Clark Springs Elementary School ready as a temporary space. We\u2019ll have more information about that by tomorrow. For now, school is closed on Tuesday.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Kamras also said during a Monday town hall meeting that students and faculty may be able to move to Clark Springs for the first quarter of the school year, 8News reported.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it would be unfair to the team at Obama to ask them to move everything, set up their classes, start at Clark Springs and then two weeks later come back to Obama,\u201d Kamras said during the meeting, according to 8News.<\/p>\n

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Richmond City School Board member Ali Faruk told CBS 6 in an article published Tuesday that the elementary school had \u201can HVAC system that wasn\u2019t working properly.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a wetter summer than we usually have, a hotter summer than we usually have, and an HVAC system that wasn\u2019t working properly,\u201d Faruk told the outlet. \u201cSo, sadly, all those came together to create the perfect awful soup for the looming \u2026 mold in a building that already had a proclivity to mold.\u201d<\/p>\n

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