On the second day of the new school year, there were nearly 500 work orders to fix cooling systems across Albuquerque Public Schools' almost 150 campuses as an August heat wave saw temperatures reach 101 degrees on Friday.

Over the summer, the district kept many of its cooling systems running in hopes of avoiding issues with them failing as teachers and students returned to classrooms in August.

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