PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) \u2014 With temperatures approaching 90 degrees this week, some Philly schools are making an early switch to air conditioning.<\/p>\n
District Spokesperson Monique Braxton said the conversion to air conditioning on May 1, but the building engineers started the process this week.<\/p>\n
“Many of our buildings operate on a two-pipe HVAC system, and they cannot provide heat and AC simultaneously,\u201d she said. \u201cSo crews have begun to move building to building to complete the seasonal switch.”<\/p>\n
Braxton said half of the district\u2019s buildings with central air and heat have already been transitioned. The remaining buildings will be transitioned by May 1.<\/p>\n
Schools with window air conditioning units have been told they can turn them on. Braxton said 53 of the district’s 218 schools currently have insufficient cooling systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) \u2014 With temperatures approaching 90 degrees this week, some Philly schools are making an early…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":168313,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[75782,227,75783,69,71,70,1998],"class_list":{"0":"post-168312","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-air-conditioning","9":"tag-education","10":"tag-hot-weather","11":"tag-philadelphia","12":"tag-philadelphia-headlines","13":"tag-philadelphia-news","14":"tag-school-district-of-philadelphia"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168312\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}