Washington-Kosciusko. The 278 PK through fourth-grade pupils have packed their pencils and crayons for a five-day break. Actually it’s nine days if you count the weekends, the kids will tell you. Image: Steve Lunde
Comment: What do the window air units tell us?
WINONA Minn. – The Winona School Board has stepped up its information campaign about the sorry state of ventilation systems at its major grade schools. More potent, though, is the silent testimony of dozens of window air-conditioners hanging out of classroom windows of the 1930s-vintage Washington-Kosciusko school on Mankato Avenue. Although quiet now, come the swelting months ahead the units will be blasting frigid air directoy and noisily on kids next to windows. Sweaters in June? Yes, on some days. The Board is floating two referendums in April, together asking taxpayers for $87 million for physical upgrades, including central air-conditioning at older schools.
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