{"id":974364,"date":"2026-08-01T22:10:27","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T22:10:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/974364\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T22:10:27","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T22:10:27","slug":"keeping-arizona-students-teachers-safe-a-hot-issue-as-schools-open-in-record-heat-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/974364\/","title":{"rendered":"Keeping Arizona students, teachers safe a hot issue as schools open in record heat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OPINION \u2014 As temperatures in Phoenix\u00a0soared to 117 degrees\u00a0Fahrenheit, or 47 degrees Celsius, in July 2026,\u00a0children headed outside to walk to and from school, play during recess and suit up for baseball practice.<\/p>\n<p>These routines have long been part of the school day, but with a rising number of\u00a0school districts in Arizona, as well as across the country,\u00a0starting their academic year in mid-July or August, kids are spending more time at school during some of the hottest days of the year.<\/p>\n<p>Heat doesn\u2019t just affect places like Phoenix, which is well known for its scorching temperatures that don\u2019t always drop by much in the evenings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OPINION \u2014 As temperatures in Phoenix\u00a0soared to 117 degrees\u00a0Fahrenheit, or 47 degrees Celsius, in July 2026,\u00a0children headed outside&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":974112,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5131],"tags":[390992,217263,5229,5643,390986,1587,18849,6370,390990,1258,210,322180,390987,3102,390985,390989,390984,390991,390988,1589,6012,11645,390983,6214,22598,28291,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,16225,56210],"class_list":["post-974364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-phoenix","tag-absences","tag-academic-calendar","tag-america","tag-arizona","tag-arizona-state-university-researchers","tag-az","tag-danger","tag-extreme-heat","tag-fields-and-play-areas-not-shaded","tag-funding","tag-health","tag-heat-illnesses","tag-heatready-schools","tag-high-school-sports","tag-hottest-days-of-the-year","tag-inadequate-air-conditioning","tag-moved-up-to-mid-july-or-august","tag-no-school-nurse-or-medic","tag-outdoor-school-activities","tag-phoenix","tag-physical-activity","tag-school","tag-schools-underprepared","tag-students","tag-teachers","tag-test-results","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-valley","tag-well-being"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=974364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974364\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/974112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=974364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=974364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=974364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}