The bill comes in the wake of an environmental analysis showing that 17 D.C. school playgrounds contained elevated levels of lead.

The city says it has pressure washed and otherwise remediated the 17 sites.

The closures went into effect at Aiton Elementary School, Cardozo Education Campus School, and Thomson Elementary School on Friday.

Greer Gillis, the former head of the Department of General Services, will now sit on the Public Service Commission.

Environmental groups and some councilmembers have opposed the nomination of Greer Gillis, the former leader of the Department of General Services, to the Public Service Commission.

A total of seven fields failed annual tests in the spring and weren’t fixed until the fall, and if officials used a more stringent standard, about half the city’s artificial turf fields would fail.

The plans come several months after parents and natural grass advocates began pressing the administration about what they consider the dangers of crumb rubber and other synthetic materials used in artificial turf.

“As soon as they know something like this, it has to be made public and it wasn’t. That’s a problem.”

The ball drops for the Jewish people on September 19 to ring in year 5778.

A new report details a litany of failures at the District’s Department of General Services.