Broward Schools will stay closed Friday due to road conditions and $2 million in damage

Broward Schools will remain closed Friday following heavy rain and flooding that has caused at least $2 million in damage, the district announced.

After-school activities are also canceled for a second day. Schools are expected to reopen Monday.

School Board Chairwoman Lori Alhadeff made the announcement about 6 p.m. in a streamed news conference. She said school staff spent the day assessing the condition of campuses.

“Regretfully, we cannot fully access all campuses, nor complete all the necessary repairs at those we were able to assess,” Alhadeff said. “Additionally, many of our staff would be unable to access school campuses due to heavy flooding.”

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The district was not able to access about 30 schools, Chief of Staff Valerie Wanza said, adding the district has identified an estimated $2 million in damage.

“A lot of it is due to flooding and some water intrusion in some of the entry levels of a lot of our buildings,” Wanza said.

Much of the damage is in areas in eastern Broward that received heavy rains, including Hollywood, Dania Beach, Hallandale Beach, Fort Lauderdale and Oakland Park, Chief Communications Officer John Sullivan said.

The closures Thursday and Friday may prevent the district from meeting the required number of instructional minutes from the state. Any additional makeup days needed will be announced soon, Alhadeff said.

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Broward schools angered many parents by waiting until after 11 p.m. Wednesday to notify them that school was canceled Thursday.

“How does the news report this at 11 and we don’t get a robocall until 11:45?” Hollywood parent Alexandra Brown wrote on Facebook. “Hollywood has been underwater since 3 p.m. You’d think this call could’ve been made a bit sooner.”

Another parent, Rebecca Jimenez, tweeted Thursday, “I woke up this morning and wondered who called me so late. Good thing I was already up when they called at 5:30 a.m. and texted/emailed about 7 or 8 more times this morning.”

Sullivan said the district prefers to give families ample time when it decides to close schools.

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“Unfortunately, this was unexpected. We didn’t anticipate the level of rain that a lot of our campuses received,” he said. “So we continued to assess throughout the evening and at that time we determined that the safest thing to do for our families and students was to close our campuses today.”

He said district officials “understand the timing was not ideal, but unfortunately, it was unforeseen that we were going to get that type of weather. I don’t think anyone anticipated the rainfall that we received throughout the county, particularly on the east coast of the county.”