Good evening St. Cecilia families,

As overnight rains are expected to continue through our immediate area, we are monitoring the situation closely. With localized street flooding common around our school and many of the neighborhoods our families and teachers are coming from, the safety of our students, families and staff remain our top priority. We will continue to monitor street flooding and the possibility of dangerous traffic conditions and will communicate a school cancellation decision in the morning if necessary. 

Our apologies for not sending out an IRIS alert this morning. Sending only the Insider Alert to notify you that school would be canceled.

As was noted in Friday’s Insider, this week we were going to send out an Insider Alert notifying everyone of a test of the emergency notification system, as well as do our IRIS Emergency Alert System test. It was our plan to do that by no later than tomorrow (Wednesday) morning to allow us the appropriate time to complete the data validation process (it is a new process this year) with the IRIS system, and also test internally among administration. Our apologies for not having done this sooner.

We have completed the data validation process with IRIS and the system is ready if it becomes necessary to send an alert tomorrow morning. Granted, because of the current situation, we won’t have the appropriate time to test the system. As a redundancy, we will also send out an Insider Alert if we need to cancel or have a delayed start to school tomorrow. Please check your email in the morning to see if there are any updates.