{"id":279190,"date":"2026-09-04T20:04:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T20:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/279190\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T20:04:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T20:04:09","slug":"wtae-editorial-heat-and-keeping-students-cool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/279190\/","title":{"rendered":"WTAE Editorial: Heat and keeping students cool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Opinion<\/p>\n<p>WTAE Editorial: Heat and keeping students cool<\/p>\n<p>PITTSBURGH \u2014<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"1\">Pittsburgh Public Schools moved thousands of students to remote learning this week due to extreme heat, which made school buildings unsafe.  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"2\">WTAE President &amp; General Manager Charles W. Wolfertz III speaks on behalf of the editorial board.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"3\">School buildings can become much hotter than outdoor temperatures, with heat indexes reaching dangerous levels during weather like this past week. While ensuring student and staff safety is a priority, the decision to close more than half of the district&#8217;s schools during the second week of the school year creates significant challenges.  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"4\">The closures have placed a burden on working parents, disrupted learning, and made remote education the default solution to what is described as a basic infrastructure problem.   <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"5\">The situation underscores the need for Pittsburgh Public Schools to develop a plan with clarity and urgency to ensure students can remain in school, even when the weather does not cooperate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Opinion WTAE Editorial: Heat and keeping students cool PITTSBURGH \u2014 Pittsburgh Public Schools moved thousands of students to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":279191,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[116856,9513,32817,94040,73,75,74,940,28552,40958,26602,116857,116858,6984,7213,1133,5865,41674,116855],"class_list":["post-279190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-dangerous-level","tag-district","tag-heat","tag-heat-index","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-pittsburgh-public-schools","tag-remote-learning","tag-school-building","tag-school-year","tag-significant-challenge","tag-staff-safety","tag-student","tag-thousand","tag-weather","tag-week","tag-wtae-editorial","tag-wtae-editorial-heat-and-keeping-students-cool"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279190","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=279190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279190\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}