00:00 From schools in Central Florida,
00:02 we were looking at over 1400
00:04 work orders just for AC to
00:06 classrooms in Minnesota.
00:07 More than half of our schools
00:09 don't have air conditioning.
00:11 The start of the new school year is
00:13 overshadowed by warm classrooms and in
00:16 some spots the hottest temperatures
00:18 of the entire summer. A lot of
00:20 the thermostats were actually faulty
00:22 and that weren't reading correctly.
00:24 They were saying 72, but they were
00:26 really, you know, at 80.
00:28 The school system says 300 rooms in 60
00:31 school buildings across Polk County,
00:33 FL have air conditioning issues.
00:34 Polk Education Association filed
00:36 the class action grievance concerned
00:38 about the learning conditions and
00:40 safety of students and teachers.
00:41 Summers are not going to cooler.
00:43 We have to address this now so that
00:46 this doesn't happen next summer.
00:48 Schools in northern states known
00:50 for their cold and snowy winters
00:52 are also dealing with the heat too.
00:54 Researchers say the frequency of 80
00:56 degree plus school days will continue
00:58 growing and spreading North by 2025
01:00 through 2055 our buildings that you
01:02 know are as old as dating back to 1890
01:05 Saint Paul public school officials
01:07 are upgrading old buildings with a
01:09 focus on energy efficiency and
01:11 sustainability drawing in cool
01:13 nighttime air overnight to get our
01:15 buildings as cold as possible so
01:17 they get to reset every day.
01:19 That's part of us managing you know
01:21 how our buildings supporting kids
01:23 data to get to the school level.
01:25 It's supporting kids day to day.
01:27 It's expected to cost tens of billions
01:30 of dollars to get air conditioning
01:32 in every classroom in America.
01:34 For Accuweather, I'm Bill Waddell.
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