The Allentown School District is in its third day of work to fully restore technology services after a Wednesday morning power fluctuation disrupted cooling systems at the district\u2019s main data center.<\/p>\n
The districtwide outage affected email, student logins, network shares, copiers and the staff intranet.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo protect our infrastructure from further heat damage, some systems that store our data went offline automatically,\u201d the district wrote in a Friday morning update to staff, nothing maintenance scheduled to start at 10 p.m. and continue through the weekend should fully restore service.<\/p>\n
Email was back up Friday and the remaining systems were \u201cbeing restored in planned phases to guarantee platform stability,\u201d the update said.<\/p>\n
With student-facing platforms offline, teachers lost access to digital resources and assessment programs.<\/p>\n
Scheduled reading and math tests designed to assess progress after the first four-week unit were interrupted for Daniel Rohe, a fifth grade teacher at Ramos Elementary School. Rohe, who is in his 15th year of teaching and his first year with the district, said it\u2019s \u201cbeen a struggle\u201d to figure out how to adjust his lesson calendar amid uncertainty about when systems would be back online.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Allentown School District is in its third day of work to fully restore technology services after a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":308007,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[119,153,155,154,227,433,182,139,28,432],"class_list":["post-308006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-allentown","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-education","tag-lehigh-county","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-top-stories-tmc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}