Classes in public schools are suspended today, Education Commissioner Dr. Rita Sablan announced last night.<\/p>\n
In a social media update, the CNMI Joint Information Center posted the announcement from Sablan. It said the suspension is due to the bad weather brought by the tropical disturbance that is now being monitored east of the CNMI.<\/p>\n
\u201cStudents do not need to report to class to ensure their safety due to heavy rain, thunderstorm, and flooding associated with this tropical disturbance,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n
However, all PSS staff on Saipan\u2014except for 190-day employees\u2014are required to report for work.<\/p>\n
A PSS statement last night said Professional Development on Tinian and Rota are expected as scheduled.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe classes are suspended as a precaution due to the forming weather system. Also, there are precautionary measures that are in place for all of our public elementary, middle and high schools that cover proper protection and safeguarding of our school facilities,\u201d Sablan said in the statement.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are just slowly recovering from the devastation of Typhoon Soudelor and to mitigate further damage to our public school facilities and ensure continued safety and security of our students and staff, we are initiating this temporary suspension of school instruction for Oct. 13, 2015,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n
The education chief also encouraged public school students, parents, guardians, and the community to constantly monitor updates coming from the school district, by visiting our PSS website (www.cnmipss.org) and local media partners.<\/p>\n
Other schools<\/strong><\/p>\n Mt. Carmel School said they will still have classes today unless there will be a declarations of Condition 2.<\/p>\n \u201cAlthough the CNMI Public School System has cancelled classes for\u00a0Tuesday, Oct. 13, per Mount Carmel School policy as outlined in the 2015-2016 MCS Handbook, classes will proceed as scheduled on Tuesday, Oct. 13, unless a Typhoon Condition 2 or Tropical Storm Condition 2 has been declared by the Office of the Governor,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n Saipan Community School also announced through social media that they will still have classes today.<\/p>\n The Northern Marianas International School at the Marianas Business Plaza announced last night that it has cancelled classes for today.<\/p>\n The Saipan International School said in a Facebook posting that they will have classes today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Classes in public schools are suspended today, Education Commissioner Dr. Rita Sablan announced last night….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[900],"tags":[1222,1111,40,5987],"class_list":["post-212280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured","tag-education-commissioner-dr","tag-mount-carmel-school","tag-pss","tag-saipan-community-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}