Thousands of students at Denver Public Schools returned to class Monday. Many of them sat in classrooms all day without any air conditioning.
DENVER — As thousands of students at Denver Public Schools returned to class Monday, many of them sat in classrooms all day without any air conditioning.“To be able to teach and learn in a room that was 95, or the mid-90s, it was not uncommon here at all,” said Mia Martinez Lopez, West High School’s principal. “It was every day that I would check the temperature and just be gearing up for knowing that we would be having to make different plans to move kids out of classrooms that were too hot.
“We went through a process with various stakeholders to select the schools to be included,” said Trena Marsal, deputy superintendent of operations at DPS. “We wanted to make sure that we had a formula for how we were measuring those buildings, and what were the hottest buildings. From that, we were able to create an index or heat index.
“We have our building controls that help us to bring in the cooler nighttime air, which we call night purging, so that when students come into those buildings in the mornings, it is cool,” said Marsal. “We monitor the temperatures throughout the day with our staff, so that if we see any temperatures that are concerning, we can work with school leaders to possibly call a heat day.”
"The decision to release students early due to building heat is made on a school-by-school basis and all of the details are communicated directly to their community," said Pribble."We try to make the data-driven decision the day before to provide families with as much time as possible to make alternate plans."
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