Area officials in a variety of settings described the list of complications wrought by the heat, which on Wednesday felt like 113 degrees in St. Louis.
Dr. Keisha Scarlett, St. Louis Public Schools superintendent, was greeted with a first day of school challenge she rarely if ever faced as a Seattle Schools administrator for 24 years.
A week of dangerous heat is taxing air conditioning systems in schools across the region, pushing district leaders to close buildings and dismiss early.
Area officials in a variety of settings described the list of complications wrought by the heat, which on Wednesday felt like 113 degrees in St. Louis.
The first day of school is filled with new teachers and classmates, but for Busch Middle School of Character students, their first day included a power outage.