{"id":53989,"date":"2022-01-04T10:50:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-04T18:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/kent-school-district-cancels-classes-tuesday-jan-4\/"},"modified":"2022-01-04T10:50:00","modified_gmt":"2022-01-04T18:50:00","slug":"kent-school-district-cancels-classes-tuesday-jan-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/kent-school-district-cancels-classes-tuesday-jan-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Kent School District cancels classes Tuesday, Jan. 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Kent School District canceled classes on Tuesday, Jan. 4 after initially planning a two-hour late start.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Due to a staffing shortage, including bus drivers and continued icy conditions on the roads, school is canceled today (Tuesday) at all KSD schools,&rdquo; according to a district statement. &ldquo;Sports and evening events are canceled. The admin center is open.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We understand the timing of this decision is hard for families; however, we must prioritize the safety of our students, families and staff.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Cold temperatures and ice caused roads to remain hazardous Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>&rdquo;We will continue to monitor weather and staffing and work to make decisions to support student learning and safety as early as possible,&rdquo; according to the statement.<\/p>\n<p>In-person learning resumed Monday with a two-hour late start due to road conditions. Students had just returned from a two-week holiday break.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Due to staffing shortage, icy road conditions <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":212,"featured_media":53990,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-53989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53989"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/212"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53989"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=53989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}