Electrical Issues Leave Some Classrooms in Dark at Rison

RISON - The Cleveland County School District will not have to make up a school day after an electrical issue at the Rison campus allowed some students to leave early due to dark classrooms Monday morning, Superintendent Jerrod Williams said.Williams reported that sometime over the weekend, there was an issue with the underground power supply feeding the three-phase transformer that serves part of both the Rison High School and Rison Elementary buildings. When students and staff arrived Monday morning, he said some classrooms at both buildings were without power while the electricity remained on in others.According to Williams, the outages were confined to parts of the high school and elementary buildings. He said the administrative office, the vocational building, the cafeteria and other out buildings were not affected by the outage.Williams said one phase of the three-phase transformer remained fully powered while the other two phases had an issues with the power supply, resulting in the loss of electricity to some parts of both buildings.The school district posted an announcement on its Facebook page Monday morning informing parents about the electrical problem, and notified them they were welcome to pick up their children if they liked, and the absence would not count against them.Williams said both schools remained in session as usual despite the problem, and power was restored by early afternoon. He said lunch was served as usual since the cafeteria had power. Also, Williams noted that the bus routes ran at their regular times after school since the district did not want to transport students to households that may not have had a parent at home.Since school was never officially dismissed for the day, Williams said the school district will not have to make up the day. Cleveland County, like many other school districts across the state, is already having to make up days that were lost to the winter storm earlier this school year.The Cleveland County School Board…