{"id":884466,"date":"2026-10-16T15:16:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T15:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/884466\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T15:16:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T15:16:10","slug":"des-moines-public-schools-delay-classes-at-16-schools-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/884466\/","title":{"rendered":"Des Moines Public Schools delay classes at 16 schools Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DES MOINES, Iowa \u2014<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">Des Moines Public Schools issued a two-hour delay Friday morning following a large scale phone and internet service outage.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"1\">The following schools are impacted:<\/p>\n<p>Capitol View Elementary Edmunds ElementaryGreenwood ElementaryHarding Middle SchoolHanawalt ElementaryHillis ElementaryHoover High SchoolHubbell ElementaryMadison ElementaryMeredith Middle SchoolMerrill Middle SchoolOak Park ElementaryPerkins ElementaryPhillips Elementary Pleasant Hill ElementaryWindsor Elementary <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"3\">In an email, a Des Moines Public Schools spokesperson says Metronet has reported a large-scale outage impacting phone service, internet and security at these buildings.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"4\">Classes will begin two hours late. Transportation will be delayed by two hours. Breakfast and lunch will still be served. School will dismiss at normal time.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"5\">\u00bb <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@KCCI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Subscribe to KCCI&#8217;s YouTube page<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"6\">\u00bb Download the free KCCI app to get updates on the go: <a href=\"https:\/\/go.skimresources.com\/?id=109350X1567025&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapps.apple.com%2Fus%2Fapp%2Fkcci-8-news-des-moines%2Fid505215818&amp;sref=&amp;xcust=nFRE\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Apple<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.hearst.android.kcci&amp;hl=en_US&amp;gl=US\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Google Play<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DES MOINES, Iowa \u2014 Des Moines Public Schools issued a two-hour delay Friday morning following a large scale&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":884467,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[517,33855,26096,112770,18276,103811,2314,37914,174,371198,108859,371199,8293,371197,7270,74,6145,65214],"class_list":["post-884466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-internet","tag-apple","tag-breakfast","tag-building","tag-dmps","tag-download","tag-free-kcci-app","tag-go","tag-hour","tag-internet","tag-internet-service-outage","tag-kcci","tag-large-scale-outage","tag-phone","tag-school-friday","tag-security","tag-technology","tag-transportation","tag-youtube-page"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=884466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884466\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/884467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=884466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=884466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=884466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}