{"id":419587,"date":"2026-08-28T21:14:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T21:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/419587\/"},"modified":"2026-08-28T21:14:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T21:14:16","slug":"mccallum-high-school-pleas-for-fans-on-thursday-after-experiencing-a-c-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/419587\/","title":{"rendered":"McCallum High School pleas for fans on Thursday after experiencing A\/C issues"},"content":{"rendered":"

AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 McCallum High School in central Austin sent out a plea for portable fans on Thursday after the high school experienced severe air conditioning issues.<\/p>\n

In a letter to families on Thursday, Principal Andy Baxa said that multiple portables and classrooms across campus were without working A\/C. <\/p>\n

The school said that they were working with Austin ISD officials to address the issues with the A\/C, and that several fixes had been made; however, the remaining issues would take “a little longer” to complete.<\/p>\n

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McCallum requested donations of quiet or “whisper-mode” portable fans to help keep students cool. Teachers at the high school brought personal fans from home, but the school said that those units were not enough to keep a full classroom comfortable in the extreme heat.<\/p>\n

As of Friday morning, the school says it has received 23 fans. Austin ISD maintenance and construction teams are working on repairs to the air conditioning.<\/p>\n

The plea for fans came as central Texas experiences a heat advisory and one of its driest Augusts on record.<\/p>\n

Those who would like to donate fans may drop them off at the front office of the high school. You can also ship a fan bought online, the school asking those who do to deliver them directly to McCallum High School, Attn: Front Office; 5600 Sunshine Dr., Austin, TX 78756.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 McCallum High School in central Austin sent out a plea for portable fans on Thursday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":419588,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-419587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=419587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/419588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}