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As the city鈥檚 hottest summer on record drags into September, some Albuquerque Public Schools classrooms are still without air conditioning.

The district reported about 400 open work orders for broken cooling systems across its 140 campuses Friday, according to APS spokesperson Martin Salazar.

At one Northeast Heights elementary school, the HVAC system has been broken since the second week of school.

A work order for malfunctioning AC at O帽ate Elementary School submitted Aug. 14 required a replacement part to be shipped from overseas, which did not arrive until Thursday. Repairing the system is set to take another week, though the school has had 鈥渢emporary systems鈥� in place for cooling, Salazar added.

Deputy Superintendent Antonio Gonzales told reporters before the beginning of school last month that the district was anticipating high temperatures, but had 鈥渁ll hands on deck鈥� to address AC issues.

鈥淲e are meeting literally daily to go over work orders, addressing any situations that may be coming our way,鈥� Gonzales said.

APS has 22,000 cooling systems throughout the district, about a third of which are refrigerated air, and the rest are swamp coolers, he said.

Voters approved a $350 million bond package last November that includes $40 million to add air conditioning to 20 schools. Construction at eight schools is currently underway, Gonzales said.

Sarah Hager, president of the Albuquerque Teachers Federation, said the teachers鈥� union would like to see all of the district鈥檚 campuses outfitted with refrigerated air.

鈥淭he biggest problem that we鈥檙e facing right now is that swamp coolers aren鈥檛 doing enough justice to cool down classrooms,鈥� she said.

Some classrooms have individual cooling units, Hager said, and though they do a sufficient job of keeping classrooms cool, they鈥檙e loud and set on a timer to turn off after three hours.

鈥淚t blew papers around,鈥� Hager said. 鈥淚 taught art, so kids鈥� stuff was getting blown around.鈥�

The complaints of hot classrooms are so inevitable, Hager said, that the union added a 鈥淲hat to do if you need HVAC repairs鈥� section to its website at the start of August.

鈥淲e know it鈥檚 going to be hot, and we know there鈥檚 going to be air conditioners that are broken,鈥� she said.

Natalie Robbins covers education for the Journal. You can reach her at nrobbins@abqjournal.com.