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PSD superintendent outlines heat actions, AC installation plan and calendar review
Summary
Superintendent Kingsley told the Board of Education that 32 district schools lack air conditioning, the district has used heat protocols and early releases, and mill-levy funds will fund multi-year AC installations. He also flagged recent staff arrests and a student injury as safety concerns.
Superintendent Kingsley told the Poudre School District R-1 Board of Education on Aug. 26 that the district is responding to repeated extreme heat days with protocols, temporary mitigation and a multi-year plan to install permanent air conditioning in schools that lack it.
Kingsley said the district has 32 schools that do not yet have air conditioning and that short-term steps ("swamp coolers and other temporary heat mitigation measures") cannot match prolonged high temperatures. "Guided by our district's heat protocols, we determined early release was necessary to protect the health and the…
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