Chicago - The Chicago School Board has approved a plan to stock every public school with epinephrine pens. In an emergency, epi-pens can be used to inject a student who has gone into anaphylactic shock.
Katelyn Carlson died from a food allergy in 2010. Her father was at Wednesday’s board meeting.
“The week before she died, I was in the car with her taking her to school, and I asked her why she believed in God,” Michael Carlson said. “I know she has faith in her schools, and she has faith in you people from above and she's watching all of you.”
Stocking schools with epi-pens will cost CPS $195,000.