When weather heats up students to swelter without airconditioning

Tanya Marschke
Updated July 13 2018 - 5:35pm, first published 11:30am
SUMMER COOLING: Orange Public School has 665 students but not one permenant classroom has an airconditioner according to figures from the Department of Education. Due to the town's mean summer temperatures students might have to make do with what they've got. FILE PHOTO
SUMMER COOLING: Orange Public School has 665 students but not one permenant classroom has an airconditioner according to figures from the Department of Education. Due to the town's mean summer temperatures students might have to make do with what they've got. FILE PHOTO

Cool average summer temperatures mean when the weather does warm up, fewer public school students in Orange will be able to beat the heat in airconditioned classrooms compared to students in surrounding towns. 

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Tanya Marschke

Tanya Marschke

Journalist

I am based at Orange and cover a wide range of subjects as well as the weekly business column. I've worked consistently in the the media industry since 2006 including the past seven years at the Central Western Daily. Before moving to Orange, I worked as a journalist at weekly newspapers the Beaudesert Times and the Gold Coast Sun in Queensland, as well as the Scone Advocate in the Hunter Valley. I started my career at the Ridge News in Lightning Ridge while I completed my journalism studies remotely at Charles Sturt University in Bathurst.

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