Sentences with phrase «schools without air conditioning»

Faced with the problem of operating schools without air conditioning when temperatures soared above 90 degrees for several days in a row, district officials along the East Coast said they had little choice but to end the school day early.

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At Wednesday's event, the mayor, Brewer and Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña spoke with Fashion Industries students about it was like to work on sewing machines in classrooms without air conditioning.

In Williams v. California, for example, teachers, parents, and students from low - income communities described overcrowded schools that had to run multiple shifts each day and multiple shifts during the school year, alternating on - months and off - months for different cohorts of students cycling in and out of the building; classrooms with more than 40 students without enough desks, chairs, and textbooks for each student to have one; lack of curriculum materials, science equipment, computers, and libraries; and crumbling facilities featuring leaky ceilings and falling ceiling tiles, sometimes overrun with rodents, and lacking heat and air conditioning.

Then access to the newly «nationalized» schools would have to be distributed on some fair basis to local students, with the wealthy kids who don't make the cut into their old schools being sent to the regular ones, without air conditioning or libraries.

Wealthy people tend to lobby effectively for their interests, and if their interests were to include adequate public funding for the schools their children attend, and libraries, and air - conditioning, those goals could likely be achieved without having to resort to unpleasant things like teachers» strikes.

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Vince Michael of The School of the Art Institute of Chicago Time Tells describes how he stays cool without air conditioning: «Short answer: real brick walls and trees.»