Girl, 16, Dies at School; 2nd Such Death in 2 Days
A 16-year-old girl died yesterday at a public school for disabled students in Staten Island, just a day after a teenager collapsed at a Bronx high school and later died.
Officials of the Department of Education said that the girl, Catherine Bodden, had Down syndrome, an enlarged heart and pulmonary hypertension, a rare lung disorder. She fell over in a classroom at the Richard H. Hungerford School around 8:50 a.m., the officials said.
As the school system struggled to explain its second student death in 24 hours, lawmakers criticized it for flouting a new state law that requires all schools to have defibrillators on hand. Under the law, passed in May, every school in the state was to have a defibrillator -- and a staff member trained to use it -- by Dec. 1.
By Abby Goodnough and Jennifer Medina Jan. 8, 2003, NY Times
A 16-year-old girl died yesterday at a public school for disabled students in Staten Island, just a day after a teenager collapsed at a Bronx high school and later died.
Officials of the Department of Education said that the girl, Catherine Bodden, had Down syndrome, an enlarged heart and pulmonary hypertension, a rare lung disorder. She fell over in a classroom at the Richard H. Hungerford School around 8:50 a.m., the officials said.
As the school system struggled to explain its second student death in 24 hours, lawmakers criticized it for flouting a new state law that requires all schools to have defibrillators on hand. Under the law, passed in May, every school in the state was to have a defibrillator -- and a staff member trained to use it -- by Dec. 1.
By Abby Goodnough and Jennifer Medina Jan. 8, 2003, NY Times
Girl, 16, Dies at School; 2nd Such Death in 2 Days
A 16-year-old girl died yesterday at a public school for disabled students in Staten Island, just a day after a teenager collapsed at a Bronx high school and later died.
Officials of the Department of Education said that the girl, Catherine Bodden, had Down syndrome, an enlarged heart and pulmonary hypertension, a rare lung disorder. She fell over in a classroom at the Richard H. Hungerford School around 8:50 a.m., the officials said.
As the school system struggled to explain its second student death in 24 hours, lawmakers criticized it for flouting a new state law that requires all schools to have defibrillators on hand. Under the law, passed in May, every school in the state was to have a defibrillator -- and a staff member trained to use it -- by Dec. 1.
By Abby Goodnough and Jennifer Medina Jan. 8, 2003, NY Times
A 16-year-old girl died yesterday at a public school for disabled students in Staten Island, just a day after a teenager collapsed at a Bronx high school and later died.
Officials of the Department of Education said that the girl, Catherine Bodden, had Down syndrome, an enlarged heart and pulmonary hypertension, a rare lung disorder. She fell over in a classroom at the Richard H. Hungerford School around 8:50 a.m., the officials said.
As the school system struggled to explain its second student death in 24 hours, lawmakers criticized it for flouting a new state law that requires all schools to have defibrillators on hand. Under the law, passed in May, every school in the state was to have a defibrillator -- and a staff member trained to use it -- by Dec. 1.
By Abby Goodnough and Jennifer Medina Jan. 8, 2003, NY Times
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