It's a very hot and humid first day of school in the Boston area and school districts are working to beat the heat with extra fans, bottled water and even popsicles.
school districts are working to beat the heat with extra fans, bottled water and even frozen pops.
"We've delivered large industrial fans to a number of schools that don't have central air, and we are making sure there are water coolers at schools,"Of Boston's 126 public schools, 96 — or about 75 percent — do not have air conditioning, according to Boston Public Schools spokesperson Richard Weir. "We kind of thought that we’d be in cooler weather by now," said Jim Maloney, the chief operating officer of Cambridge Public Schools."We are offering lots of extra water, frequent breaks, sometimes rotating kids in and out of air conditioned classrooms, just about anything one expects to do in this late summer heat," Maloney said.
Superintendent Stacy Scott told WBUR on Tuesday that of Framingham's 15 school buildings, six have full or partial air conditioning. The district had additional nurses on call Tuesday to provide support for any students that may have heat related difficulties, and over 300 fans and 500 bottles of water had been distributed across the district.
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