By Nathan Baca
NewsChannel 3

NewsChannel 3 is uncovering new developments over a local middle school and whether or not there is a cancer cluster there.

Some teachers have claimed that something is causing cancer at La Quinta Middle School.

Desert Sands Unified School District says every test has given the school a clean bill of health, but former teachers are now hoping that the California Teacher's Association will help them find the truth behind what's caused more than 15 cases of cancer.

They believe electrical energy coming from the schools wiring may have caused it. They've established a new website over the summer, dedicated to faculty members who have died of cancer these past few years.

"We're trying to get former students and teachers to go on the website, not only for information, but to register that they've been diagnosed with cancer," says Gayle Cohen, cancer survivor and former La Quinta Middle School teacher.

District officials say that tests have already shown the school is safe.

Superintendent Doris Wilson tells News Channel 3 that, "The state department of health has provided a clean bill of health to the district in May earlier this year and with an abundance of caution, we have completed the shielding between the main electrical room and room 304 this summer."

Science and technology are taught to students in room 304, and studies show that there are elevated levels of electromagnetic energy.

The district says that the levels weren't dangerous, but some teachers aren't buying it.

"Here's the question, if there was never a problem why did they go in and make corrections? Why did you fix something that you don't have a problem to begin with?" asked Linda Loveless, whose husband died of cancer.

Doris Wilson told us, "We felt that we needed to do everything both physically and psychologically possible to assure people that La Quinta Middle School was a very safe place."