Eastern Kentucky Schools working to determine fall 2022 start dates

LETCHER COUNTY, Ky. (WYMT) – Faculties throughout the area are coping with delayed begin dates and broken college buildings.

Perry County Faculties and Letcher County Faculties have each introduced projected begin dates in late August and mid September. Many faculties ought to have already been in session.

“Now we have set a aim for mid-September and we all know that beginning at the moment it nonetheless received’t be the identical,” mentioned Denise Yonts, the Superintendent of Letcher County Faculties. “Our buildings received’t be prepared however we’re taking a look at different calendars and different schedules.”

Many college had even obtained model new provides proper earlier than flooding hit. Containers of tablets that arrived in Letcher County at the moment are destroyed due to water injury.

Faculties in Letcher County have been speculated to be in session by now. As an alternative, nicely you realize the story. Fleming-Neon Center, Martha Jane Potter, West Whitesburg, and Whitesburg are in shambles. Cleanup is ongoing, however a lot will must be changed.

Many individuals within the space are saying that the highway forward is an extended one, however one which must be taken on.

“With the ability to see the every day progress makes me really feel higher,” mentioned Yonts. “It offers you the I assume the bump it’s essential get by way of the subsequent hurdle.”

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