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Parents, students tell Richardson ISD board power outages and unsafe conditions disrupted learning
Summary
At the March board meeting, public commenters described wide-spread power and water outages at district schools and urged board members to take action; speakers said students were left without electricity or running water and called the situation "very unsafe."
Parents and students told the Richardson ISD Board of Trustees on March 14 that recent power and water failures at campus facilities left students unable to learn and exposed vulnerable students to unsafe conditions.
At public comment, Cecíli Blancarte, identified herself as a student and a parent, saying multiple campuses experienced outages and that students were forced to study "in the dark" and classrooms were "very unsafe and ill-equipped" ("fue muy…
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