L.A. School Board OKs Cool Air for 35 Schools : Air-conditioning: The facilities, including 23 in the Valley, will receive room and window units by next summer. The plan is contingent on the receipt of state funds.

The Los Angeles school board on Monday voted to install room and window air-conditioners by next summer at 35 of the city’s hottest year-round schools, including 23 in the San Fernando Valley.

An additional 26 year-round schools in the Los Angeles Unified School District will receive air-conditioning by July, 1992, under the $34.4-million plan.

Teachers and students attending Valley schools that began operating year-round this summer complained of classroom temperatures that routinely approached 100 degrees.

The 61 schools selected to receive air-conditioning over the next two years had recorded the highest temperatures among schools in the district.

The project is contingent on the district receiving $27.7 million in state air-conditioning funds, a prospect that district officials say is expected. The board on Monday agreed to spend an estimated $6.7 million in fees collected from developers to complete the projects.

In a pilot program last month, district officials installed the lower-cost units in classrooms at two schools in the Valley. Officials found that even with a roomful of students, portable air-conditioners could reduce temperatures from 100 degrees to the upper 70s.

Parents and teachers had complained that it was impossible for children to learn at the city’s hottest schools.

Representatives of a newly formed community group, called Kids First, asked the school board to scrap plans for the 61 schools and instead install air-conditioning at 150 schools by the end of next year. The group didn’t specify how the district would pay for the additional air-conditioning.

Leaders of the group--formed by members of Valley Organized In Community Efforts, a San Fernando Valley community organization--also called on district officials to turn off air-conditioning at administrative offices until all classrooms are air-conditioned.

Board members called on the group to join the district in efforts to increase state funding for air-conditioning. “We need to work together,” board President Jackie Goldberg said.

Most schools that have been operating on year-round schedules for several years have central air-conditioning.

But more than 400 of the district’s 616 schools have no air-conditioning or only some air-conditioning. Most of those schools will probably not get air-conditioning for several years because of the estimated $700-million cost to install systems in the schools that need them, district officials said.

All schools will begin operating year-round next July to make room in the increasingly crowded district, which this year is expected to reach about 626,000 students.

Valley Schools That Are Affected

Valley elementary schools in the Los Angeles Unified School District scheduled to receive air-conditioning by next summer:

* Apperson Street School, Sunland

* Arminta Street School, North Hollywood

* Bassett Street School, Van Nuys

* Beachy Avenue School, Pacoima

* Burbank Boulevard School, North Hollywood

* Canoga Park School, Canoga Park

* Coldwater Canyon Avenue School, North Hollywood

* Dyer Street School, Sylmar

* El Dorado Avenue School, Sylmar

* Fenton Avenue School, Lake View Terrace

* Fernangeles School, Sun Valley

* Harding Street School, Sylmar

* Hazeltine Avenue School, Van Nuys

* Hillery T. Broadous School, Pacoima

* Langdon Avenue School, Sepulveda

* Noble Avenue School, Sepulveda

* Plummer School, Sepulveda

* San Fernando School, San Fernando

* Sharp Avenue School, Pacoima

* Strathern Street School, North Hollywood

* Sylmar School, Sylmar

* Telfair Avenue School, Pacoima

* Valerio Street School, Van Nuys