 She also stated that on February 1, 1997, she received a death threat on her answering machine.As a result, CPS head Paul G. Vallas notified the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and Edgar Lopez, the chairperson of a committee named by the speaker of the Illinois House of Representatives to look into the school, accused it of being "controlled by radicals" and asked for it to be broken into smaller schools.In February 1997, Irene DaMota, the principal of Whittier Elementary School, was selected as the new Clemente principal.