{"id":104369,"date":"2017-09-26T16:08:06","date_gmt":"2017-09-26T20:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/?p=104369"},"modified":"2017-09-26T16:08:06","modified_gmt":"2017-09-26T20:08:06","slug":"flooding-affects-school-year-in-many-towns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2017\/09\/26\/flooding-affects-school-year-in-many-towns\/","title":{"rendered":"Flooding affects school year in many towns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Education announced that flooding has affected 25 public schools nationwide, with 2,754 students impeded to return to classes. The affected schools are located in Duarte (San Francisco de Macor\u00eds), El Seibo, San Pedro de Macor\u00eds (Ram\u00f3n Santana), La Altagracia (Hig\u00fcey), Puerto Plata, San Crist\u00f3bal and Santiago. Also in Montecristi (Casta\u00f1uelas, Palo Verde and Guayub\u00edn) and El Seibo (Miches), all areas affected by flooding of rivers.<\/p>\n<p>The Ministry of Education reported that overall 53 schools were affected, and 209 public schools were used as shelters, housing around 11,000 people since Thursday, 21 September 2017. Still, as of Monday, 25 September, four public schools in Bajo Yuna and Montecristi were occupied by refugees from the rains brought by Hurricane Maria.<\/p>\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.listindiario.com\/la-republica\/2017\/09\/26\/484007\/inundaciones-afectan-a-25-escuelas-en-el-pais\" target=\"_blank\">Listin Diario<\/a><\/p>\n<p>26 September 2017<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Education announced that flooding has affected 25 public schools nationwide, with 2,754 students impeded to return to classes. The affected schools are located in Duarte (San Francisco de Macor\u00eds), El Seibo, San Pedro de Macor\u00eds (Ram\u00f3n Santana), La Altagracia (Hig\u00fcey), Puerto Plata, San Crist\u00f3bal and Santiago. Also in Montecristi (Casta\u00f1uelas, Palo Verde &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2017\/09\/26\/flooding-affects-school-year-in-many-towns\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104369"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104369\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}