Denver Public Schools now have the ability to measure or track things like temperature, mold levels, and other air pollutants that can harm students. They’re one of the early adopters of this technology and among the first districts in the country with the ability to monitor every classroom.
“It’s doing it every second,” said Joni Rix, the district’s environmental program manager. “So it’s a lot more pieces of data and information about the temperature and kind of what’s going on than what we had before.”
The idea for the sensors originated during the COVID-19 pandemic, and thanks to federal funding, the district now has more than 5,000 of them in every DPS classroom.
“If rooms are over 87 degrees or start to continue to warm up, they’re sent a message out to facility management to know something’s going on otherwise,” said Rix.
For schools like Asbury, which are still not fully equipped with air conditioning, the temperature monitoring is particularly important…