IMPLEMENTED. PITTSBURGH PUBLIC SCHOOLS HAS WHAT IT CALLS AN EXTREME HEAT PROTOCOL AND THE WARM TEMPERATURES THROUGHOUT THE WEEK HAVE FORCED ADMINISTRATORS TO USE THAT PROTOCOL. AND HERE’S WHAT IT ...
Eric Hitchner teaches English on the fourth floor of a 111-year-old high school in Philadelphia. Come September, his classroom will be packed with a new crop of teenagers, but one thing will be the ...
CLIMATEWIRE | Hundreds of thousands of students will return this month to public schools without air conditioning amid stifling temperatures. Box fans will thrum over teachers’ voices. School nurses ...
Nearly 40 percent of schools in the United States were built before the 1970s, when temperatures were cooler and fewer buildings needed air conditioning. That has changed. In recent decades, heat has ...
In response to global warming, human beings have been forced to adapt in response to the long-term warming trend. Long-term warming is concomitant with severe weather events such as heatwaves, cold ...
The Great Divide is an investigative team that explores educational inequality in Boston and statewide. Sign up to receive our newsletter, and send ideas and tips to [email protected]. After ...
For the past few days, a heatwave has glowered over the Pacific Northwest, forcing temperatures in the region to a record-breaking 118ºF. Few people in the region—neither Americans nor Canadians—have ...