9 EBR schools have power
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All but nine of almost 90 East Baton Rouge public schools remained without power Thursday, up from just two the day before, casting in doubt whether classes will resume Monday as planned.
Top administrators for the district gathered Thursday for the first time since Hurricane Gustav, but made no decisions about when schools will re-open. These administrators, as well as principals from every public school, are meeting again at 10 a.m. today at Twin Oaks Elementary School, 819 Trammell Drive.
“That’s when the decision is going to be made about next week,” said Chris Trahan, spokesman for the school system.
Aramark, the private company that maintains schools for the school system, has visited every school and found notable damage at eight: Claiborne and Magnolia Woods elementaries; Belaire, Istrouma, McKinley, Tara and Woodlawn high schools; and Staring Educational Center.
Staring, a middle school for students much older than their peers, lost much of its roof and its students and staff will have to be relocated temporarily from the current space in the Town South Shopping Center, 1919 Staring Lane, Trahan said.
The nine schools with at least some power are: Banks, Progress, Twin Oaks and Wedgewood elementary schools, Broadmoor Middle School, Lee and Tara high schools, Arlington Preparatory Academy and the Christa McAuliffe Center.
Trahan said he expects more schools will have regained power by this morning. The school system also has located a food freezer with power, and was planning to start removing food from school cafeterias Thursday afternoon, Trahan said. School officials held off removing food until they could find a place with power to store it.
Of the 33 schools in the Catholic Diocese of Baton Rouge, only one, St. Thomas Aquinas High School in Hammond, had power as of Thursday morning, said Sister Mary Michaeline, superintendent of schools.
“Everybody’s just sitting and waiting to see if they get power,” Michaeline said.
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