Soil samples at East Chicago's Carrie Gosch Elementary School tested at dangerous lead levels. So the decision was made to move the hundreds of students to a former middle school located across town.

Hundreds of families living in the West Calumet neighborhood have been told to find new homes by November.

Residents of the West Calumet Housing Complex are suing local officials as well as the private companies responsible for cleaning the neighborhood's lead polluted soil.

The northwest Indiana district will use the $3 million loan to pay for renovations that took place before school started and remaining construction, remodeling and repair.

Currently, there is no set protocol for handling a lead contamination crisis in a school.

Residents of the West Calumet Housing Complex in East Chicago are working with federal, state and local officials to find new homes because elevated levels of lead have been found in the ground around their home.

Dust samples have been taken from around 70 homes at the West Calumet Housing Complex in East Chicago. About 40 have come back above the level considered safe.