As temperatures soared last week, parents at one school complained on social media: “We can’t breathe!” DCPS has more than 80 outstanding work orders for repairs.
Temperatures that pushed HVAC systems across the city past their limits have since cooled, but other issues — including out-of-service elevators and faulty public address systems — continue to vex teachers, students and their families.
But Hunter also said the department’s work this summer reflects a “dramatic improvement” from past school years, though the numbers suggest a more modest improvement. The classrooms in H.D. Woodson High School felt much cooler Thursday after two weeks of heat, said Maxine Jefferson, a special-education teacher at the Northeast campus. But when temperatures were higher, “it felt like a dryer on the third floor, and I teach on the third floor,” she said.
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