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Chicago education officials this week could vote to approve more than $800,000 in payments to settle a pair of lawsuits filed in response to a 2015 carbon monoxide leak at a Northwest Side elementary school that left several dozen students and staff members hospitalized.

Several parents filed lawsuits against Chicago Public Schools following the October 2015 incident at Prussing Elementary, where a leak from a faulty boiler led to the hospitalization of at least 71 students and seven adults.

The Chicago Board of Education on Thursday will vote on proposed settlements, which would resolve a pair of those lawsuits. Those agreements would see CPS pay out totals of $230,000 and $612,500, according to the board agenda.

A CPS spokesperson on Wednesday said the district does not comment on pending litigation, but added in a statement that “Chicago Public Schools is committed to ensuring that all students have a safe learning environment.”

The Jefferson Park neighborhood elementary school was evacuated around 9:30 a.m. on Oct. 30, 2015, after one student began suffering a headache, nausea and dizziness, according to DNAinfo.

Chicago firefighters subsequently discovered dangerously high levels of carbon monoxide in the building, DNAinfo reported at the time.

Weeks after the incident, then-CPS CEO Forrest Claypool said he was “deeply sorry for what the parents, teachers and staff and children went through there.”

He told the board during its November 2015 meeting that a district investigation revealed a “series of cascading accidents” that led to the leak. That included a malfunctioning regulator on the boiler and an unplugged carbon monoxide detector inside the school.

According to CPS, all schools are now outfitted with carbon monoxide detectors beyond what the city code requires, and all district-run schools have funding allocations for a full-time engineer.

The Board of Education meeting is scheduled to begin at 10:30 a.m. Thursday.