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Asheville City Schools targets Oct. 28 restart with four-hour days as water supplies constrain reopening
Summary
Superintendent Dr. Fuhrman told the board the district aims to reopen Oct. 28 with an abbreviated four-hour school day because bottled-water availability and water-system repairs limit full-day operations; the board debated calendar and staffing implications and deferred formal calendar action.
Asheville City Schools plans to reopen buildings on a coordinated schedule with Buncombe County and charter schools and is targeting Oct. 28 for students’ return, Superintendent Dr. Fuhrman said at the board’s Oct. 16 meeting.
“So we are still targeting October 28 as our start date,” Dr. Fuhrman said, describing a phased plan that relies on county and city water distribution and a daily operational check that gives families four days’ notice before reopening. The district will initially run abbreviated four-hour days — elementary 9 a.m.–1 p.m., middle and high schools 10 a.m.–2 p.m. — to match the available bottled-water supply and delivery logistics, she said.
Why it matters: municipal water in parts of the district remains nonpotable after Hurricane Helene, and…
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