The unusually high mid-May temperatures forced two D.C. schools to close Tuesday when their HVAC systems couldn’t keep classrooms cool.
Ballou High School in D.C.’s Ward 8 was closed, and the Cardozo Education Campus in Ward 1 carried out a “heat evacuation” Tuesday morning, sending students home after temperatures soared inside classrooms for the second day in a row.
By mid-morning Tuesday, Cardozo math teacher Paul Abdou told WTOP, “We have many classrooms already in the 80s. Yesterday, it was about as hot as today, and we had classrooms in the 80s and the 90s. My classroom reached a temperatures of 95 degrees yesterday.”…