{"id":421329,"date":"2026-08-30T22:44:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T22:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/421329\/"},"modified":"2026-08-30T22:44:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T22:44:12","slug":"will-san-antonio-schools-open-monday-amid-power-outages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/421329\/","title":{"rendered":"Will San Antonio schools open Monday amid power outages?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CPS Energy is largely working with San Antonio Independent School District (SAISD) and Southwest ISD, officials said during a press conference Sunday morning. The city said it&#8217;s working closely with CPS Energy teams to ensure the districts have everything they need to resume school on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>SAISD told MySA its schools will operate on a normal schedule Monday. SAISD said its teams are actively inspecting campuses to make sure they are safe, operational and ready to welcome students and staff.<\/p>\n<p>Southwest ISD wrote on Facebook that its schools are expected to operate normally on Monday. The district said most campuses have power, and it&#8217;s working closely with CPS Energy as crews continue restoration efforts to ensure all campuses are up and running by the start of school on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our district teams are also monitoring conditions and checking campuses to ensure they are safe and ready to welcome our students and staff,&#8221; Southwest ISD wrote. &#8220;We will continue to monitor the situation and provide another update later this evening.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>CPS Energy continues working to restore power across San Antonio after a severe storm left thousands without electricity, some for more than 24 hours.<\/p>\n<p>CPS Energy said Sunday morning that about 20,000 customers remained without power, down from roughly 250,000 customers who lost power after Friday&#8217;s storm. Officials cautioned that some outages could continue into early next week.<\/p>\n<p>As of 3 p.m. on Sunday, about 11,000 customers are without power, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/outagemap.cpsenergy.com\/\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">CPS Energy outage map<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The utility has brought in additional crews and expects to have nearly double its normal restoration capacity Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CPS Energy is largely working with San Antonio Independent School District (SAISD) and Southwest ISD, officials said during&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":421330,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[847,820,82,84,83],"class_list":["post-421329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-mysanews","tag-mysastaff","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421329","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=421329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421329\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/421330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}