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Parents and staff highlight HVAC failures; Seneca Valley proposes "disrupted learning minute" metric for MCPS
Summary
Seneca Valley cluster presented monitoring data and a student video showing extreme HVAC failures at MLK High School and urged the board to keep a proposed HVAC replacement in FY27 while adopting a metric for instructional time lost.
Seneca Valley cluster coordinators presented video and temperature data demonstrating recurring HVAC failures at Martin Luther King (MLK) High School, including rooms that hit 97 degrees and events that forced relocations and temporary closures. The cluster asked the board to keep MLK's HVAC replacement in the FY27 CIP and proposed a new measure, "disrupted learning minutes" (DLM), to quantify instructional time lost to facility failures.
"The temperature here at MLK…
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