As CPS reopens this week with extreme heat forecast, will schools be cool enough for learning?
Once Chicago Public Schools parent Marcelina Pedraza arrived at George Washington Elementary School’s Back to School Bash on Thursday, she said she was “accosted” by two things: a teacher who told her the air conditioning wasn’t working in multiple classrooms, and the mugginess of the combined cafeteria-auditorium. Cooling and other HVAC issues aren’t new at George Washington, said Pedraza, an ...