DISTRICT TO COMPLETE YEAR-ROUND SWITCH.Byline: Karen Maeshiro Daily News Staff Writer Once air conditioning air conditioning, mechanical process for controlling the humidity, temperature, cleanliness, and circulation of air in buildings and rooms. Indoor air is conditioned and regulated to maintain the temperature-humidity ratio that is most comfortable and healthful. is installed for sweltering swel·ter·ing adj. 1. Oppressively hot and humid; sultry. 2. Suffering from oppressive heat. swel summer days, the last of Lancaster's public elementary schools elementary school: see school. will switch next year to year-round schedules. El Dorado El Dorado, legendary country of South America El Dorado (ĕl`dərä`dō, –rā`–) [Span.,=the gilded man], legendary country of the Golden Man sought by adventurers in South America. , Lancaster, Linda Verde and Mariposa elementary schools will convert to year-round calendars for the 1997-98 school year. The four schools, the last in the district on traditional nine-month schedules, will switch to year-round after work to install the required air conditioning, heating and ventilation systems ventilation system Public health An air system designed to maintain negative pressure and exhaust air properly, to minimize the spread of TB and other respiratory pathogens in a health care facility at three of the schools is completed. ``It will help in terms of scheduling and having all schools on the same track schedules,'' board member Greg Tepe said. The Lancaster School District Lancaster School District may refer to:
El Dorado, Linda Verde and Mariposa have less efficient evaporative evaporative pertaining to evaporation. evaporative loss loss of body water by evaporation of water from the body to the air; a heat control mechanism and a factor in water balance studies. coolers, and the district has received about $500,000 per school to install the air-conditioning systems. Lancaster is a kindergarten through sixth-grade campus of temporary classroom buildings with adequate air conditioning and heating units, but enrollment in the past was too low to warrant converting to year-round, officials said. The student population is expected to increase because of 160 homes under construction in Lancaster Elementary's attendance area. There's no enrollment crunch right now at El Dorado, Linda Verde and Mariposa: the schools lost their sixth-graders to New Vista and Piute, which started this year as middle schools with sixth, seventh and eighth grades. El Dorado has an enrollment of about 850; Lancaster has approximately 600; Linda Verde, 690; and Mariposa 590, officials said. Because some of the schools do not have the 850 to 900 students needed to implement a full multi-track year-round schedule, officials are thinking of operating only selective tracks initially, then as enrollment grows, more tracks can be added. |
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