Caitlyn Meisner is a newsroom intern for Education Week, where she is reporting on education news, producing newsletters, and helping maintain edweek.org. Meisner is graduating from Baylor University in Waco, Texas, this summer. She is a writer and copy editor for the Baylor Lariat and, earlier this year, was named Reporter of the Year by the Texas Intercollegiate Press Association.Source
Across the nation, a new school year is about to start amid record-breaking stretches of scorching heat and sporadic spikes in poor air-quality conditions. Individual districts’ preparedness to confront these weather-related challenges varies widely. But an aging infrastructure coupled with these increasingly hot temperatures are factoring into districts’ struggles to keep up with cooling demands. “The average school building is 50 years old,” said Mike Pickens, the executive director of the National Council on School Facilities. “Forty-one percent of schools in our country need their HVAC...…Across the nation, a new school year is about to start amid record-breaking stretches of scorching heat and sporadic spikes in poor air-quality conditions. Individual districts’ preparedness to confront these weather-related challenges varies widely. But an aging infrastructure coupled with these increasingly hot temperatures are factoring into districts’ struggles to keep up with cooling demands. “The average school building is 50 years old,” said Mike Pickens, the executive director of the National Council on School Facilities. “Forty-one percent of schools in our country need their HVAC...WW…
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