{"id":15022,"date":"2019-11-17T20:08:31","date_gmt":"2019-11-18T01:08:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/?p=15022"},"modified":"2019-11-16T21:05:50","modified_gmt":"2019-11-17T02:05:50","slug":"winter-is-coming-how-to-stay-informed-during-weather-emergencies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/?p=15022","title":{"rendered":"Winter is Coming! How to Stay Informed During Weather Emergencies"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>With the upcoming cold weather, we would like to remind you how to stay informed about school closings or delayed openings.<\/p>\n<h2>Closings and Delayed Openings<\/h2>\n<p>If schools are to be closed or have a delayed opening, we will begin distributing that message as early as possible. We aim to have the message out by 5:30 a.m. at the latest, but this is dependent on many complicated factors. Phone calls will NOT be made. <strong>Please make sure you have provided your school with current cell phone numbers and email addresses <\/strong><strong style=\"font-size: 1.4rem;\">so that you automatically receive our weather alerts by text message and email. All parents\/guardians may <a href=\"https:\/\/www.acps.k12.va.us\/infoupdate\">update their contact information online via Parent Access (PowerSchool)<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The message will also be shared on:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.acps.k12.va.us\/domain\/792\" data-cke-saved-href=\"http:\/\/www.acps.k12.va.us\">ACPS website<\/a><\/li>\n<li>ACPS\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ACPSk12\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ACPSk12\">Twitter<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/acpsk12\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/acpsk12\">Facebook<\/a>\u00a0accounts<\/li>\n<li>the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/m.acps.k12.va.us\/\" data-cke-saved-href=\"http:\/\/m.acps.k12.va.us\">ACPS mobile app<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.acps.k12.va.us\/acpstv\" data-cke-saved-href=\"http:\/\/www.acps.k12.va.us\/acpstv.php\">ACPS-TV<\/a>\u00a0local cable channel 71<\/li>\n<li>the ACPS emergency hotline at 703-866-5300<\/li>\n<li>local radio and TV stations<\/li>\n<li>the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.alexandriava.gov\/eNews\">City of Alexandria\u2019s eNews<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Frequently Asked Questions\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Concerning Weather Alerts and Emergency Notifications<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>See our\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.acps.k12.va.us\/Page\/2117\"><strong>Weather Alerts and Emergency Notifications Frequently Asked Questions<\/strong><\/a> for answers to questions such as:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Why am I not receiving weather alerts and emergency notifications from ACPS?<\/li>\n<li>Other school divisions around us have a delayed opening or are closed \u2014 or vice versa. Why not us?<\/li>\n<li>How does ACPS plan to address missed instructional time?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u2026and many more!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the upcoming cold weather, we would like to remind you how to stay informed about school closings or delayed openings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":15037,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-acps"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-02 07:02:00","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15022"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15055,"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15022\/revisions\/15055"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}