{"id":26082,"date":"2013-08-26T17:00:50","date_gmt":"2013-08-26T22:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=26082"},"modified":"2013-09-02T11:29:25","modified_gmt":"2013-09-02T16:29:25","slug":"schools-changing-schedules-building-heat-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=26082","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE – Heat Forces School Schedule Change"},"content":{"rendered":"

WED Aug 28:<\/strong>\u00a0 Valley City Public Schools – first day of school CANCELED.\u00a0\u00a0 Jamestown Public Schools & St. Johns dismiss at 1:00pm.<\/p>\n

THURS\u00a0Aug 29:<\/strong>\u00a0 Valley City Public Schools dismiss Elementary at 1:10pm .\u00a0 Jr\/Sr High dismiss at 1:30pm.\u00a0 Jamestown Public Schools & St. Johns dismiss at 1:00pm<\/p>\n

FRI Aug 30:<\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0Valley City Public Schools dismiss Elementary at 1:10pm .\u00a0 Jr\/Sr High dismiss at 1:30pm.\u00a0 Jamestown Public Schools & St. Johns dismiss at 1:00pm<\/p>\n

Jamestown, ND (KCSi-T.V. News Aug 26, 2013) —\u00a0 Jamestown Public School’s Superintendent\u00a0 Robert Lech, is informing all parents and staff that\u00a0public schools\u00a0will be dismissing at 1:00 p.m.\u00a0for the remainder of the week, from Tuesday August 27 – Friday, August 30th, 2013.<\/strong><\/p>\n

He says, “While this is certainly an unusual occurrence, as we assessed our facilities\u00a0 through the course of today and factored in the forecasted heat index, we believe that it is in the best interest of our students and the educational environment to operate on the shortened schedule for the duration of this week.\u00a0 Understand that while some of our schools do have full or partial air-conditioning, it was not feasible to make a school closure decision on a school-by-school basis.\u00a0 Please be aware that, if the weather does improve and allow for a full day of instruction, we will notify you through the calling system.\u00a0 Our staff will utilize this additional time for teaming time and other professional development opportunities.<\/p>\n

Additionally, The open house at Jamestown Middle School<\/strong>, “What’s Poppin’ at JMS?”, originally scheduled for Tuesday, August 27, 2013\u00a0has been postponed to Tuesday, September 10, 7:00-8:00 pm.”<\/p>\n

St. John\u2019s Academy<\/strong> Principal Mark Wiest says St. John\u2019s Academy in Jamestown has decided that it will dismiss school at 1-p.m.,\u00a0the rest of the week,\u00a0due to excessive heat in the school buildings from unseasonably hot temperatures.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Valley City public Schools<\/strong> Superintendent Dean Koppelman has canceled the opening day of school set for Wednesday, August 28, 2013, due to the excessive heat this week. Koppelman says a number of buildings in the Valley City school district do not have air conditioning.\u00a0 On Thursday and Friday this week, Valley City Public Schools will start at the regular times.<\/p>\n

Dismissals Thursday and Friday this week will be at 1:10 p.m., for Valley City Public elementary schools both days, and at 1:30 -p.m. for the junior and senior high.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

WED Aug 28:\u00a0 Valley City Public Schools – first day of school CANCELED.\u00a0\u00a0 Jamestown Public Schools & St. Johns dismiss at 1:00pm. THURS\u00a0Aug 29:\u00a0 Valley City Public Schools dismiss Elementary at 1:10pm .\u00a0 Jr\/Sr High dismiss at 1:30pm.\u00a0 Jamestown Public Schools & St. Johns dismiss at 1:00pm FRI Aug 30:\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":26101,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-jamestown","category-valley-city"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26082"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26452,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26082\/revisions\/26452"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}