Majority of Florida Public Schools Cancel Classes Ahead of Hurricane Ian

As Hurricane Ian drew nearer to Florida, colleges and universities throughout the state continued to announce closures and sophistication cancellations for the week.

Greater than 50 of the state’s 76 college districts canceled lessons, many by way of Friday, based on the Florida Division of Training, which repeatedly up to date its listing as college districts supplied information. About 30 schools and universities additionally mentioned they’d shut their campuses and cancel lessons.

Florida has 5 of the ten largest public college districts in america — all of which introduced closures. They included Miami-Dade, Broward, Hillsborough, Orange and Palm Seaside counties.

Many public colleges within the state turned evacuation shelters, so it was unclear once they could be accessible once more for college kids.

The Manatee County district, positioned south of Tampa on the Gulf Coast and alongside the trail of the hurricane, closed colleges Tuesday till additional discover. The varsity district and the county’s emergency administration arrange 17 shelters, the place residents started to maneuver into on Tuesday.

SAT testing was rescheduled in Flagler County from Oct. 1 to Oct. 15 and lessons had been canceled within the district, which is on Florida’s east coast, south of St. Augustine.

“This isn’t a call we take calmly, however we wish to give our households sufficient time to organize their houses for this storm or evacuate the realm in the event that they really feel that’s the best choice for them,” mentioned Cathy Mittelstadt, the Flagler Faculties’ superintendent. “We additionally want to make use of this time to organize the emergency shelter area our campuses supply, ought to folks be requested to evacuate.”

A Florida State College alert mentioned college students who select to remain in Tallahassee might be suggested to observe a shelter-in-place protocol. Boxed meals could be delivered to the residence halls earlier than the storm.

On the College of South Florida, college students dwelling in residence halls within the St. Petersburg location had been relocated to the Tampa campus if they didn’t have various housing choices.

The College of Florida canceled all lessons, together with on-line, from Wednesday by way of Friday.

The College of Miami, a non-public college, mentioned lessons on its Coral Gables and Marine campuses would transfer on-line, in addition to some from its medical campus. Eating halls and athletics would proceed to function usually.