{"id":39175,"date":"2025-11-07T04:36:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T04:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/39175\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T04:36:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T04:36:10","slug":"arlingtons-wood-elementary-school-closed-friday-due-to-power-outage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/39175\/","title":{"rendered":"Arlington&#8217;s Wood Elementary School closed Friday due to power outage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/texas\/tag\/arlington\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Arlington elementary<\/a> school will be closed Friday due to a power outage, school officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Wood Elementary lost power on Thursday, school principal David Dillard said in a letter to parents obtained by CBS News Texas.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The electricians have determined our main electrical switch gear is beyond repair, forcing us to cancel school,&#8221; Dillard said. &#8220;It&#8217;s imperative for the safety of our students that we have power in the building.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>School should reopen Monday<\/p>\n<p>The school hopes to have repairs made in time for school on Monday, Dillard said.\u00a0 A notice from the district instructed staff to report to the Arlington ISD Professional Development Center at their normal duty time.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We apologize for the inconvenience this may cause our families and we appreciate your support,&#8221; the district said.<\/p>\n<p>No decision has been made about whether the school will need to have a makeup day.<\/p>\n<p>\n        More from CBS News\n      <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Arlington elementary school will be closed Friday due to a power outage, school officials said. Wood Elementary&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39176,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[150,163,8239,6802,27,29,28],"class_list":{"0":"post-39175","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-texas","8":"tag-arlington","9":"tag-education","10":"tag-electricity","11":"tag-school-closures","12":"tag-texas","13":"tag-texas-headlines","14":"tag-texas-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39175\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}