{"id":126628,"date":"2022-07-03T15:36:15","date_gmt":"2022-07-03T22:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=126628"},"modified":"2022-07-03T15:36:15","modified_gmt":"2022-07-03T22:36:15","slug":"schools-to-remain-closed-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2022\/07\/03\/schools-to-remain-closed-this-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Schools to remain closed this week"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>All government and government-approved private schools across the country will remain closed this week, the Ministry of Education says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u0dc3\u0dd2\u0dc3\u0dd4 \u0daf\u0dbb\u0dd4\u0dc0\u0db1\u0dca\u0da7 \u0dad\u0dc0\u0dad\u0dca \u0db1\u0dd2\u0dc0\u0dcf\u0da9\u0dd4\u0dc0\u0d9a\u0dca...\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-3uk10z1Ezk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The decision was taken at a virtual meeting held with the Education Ministry officials, provincial secretaries and directors of education today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The turnout of students, teachers and principals in schools and the Power &amp; Energy Ministry\u2019s fuel distribution process were taken up for&nbsp;discussion during the meeting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Accordingly, it was decided that a week of holidays would be declared for government and government-approved private schools from 04th to 08th of July.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEi1m_1Rli7uQeszNeEzwbyBJGlP8AMbLYsqlpCfjKkSw6qkyNMk4IrThhwPcRrnMNvz3SMCzoLgblb9CXbCd-A60b5zroOKtCoEA7B8tMm3YgKAdmQht1aYq3b3K-tPNg-hPSLzgY4EdimErU3Ro5kL0yOYcwIz0BphGN6tEvDYCWRLPDQCK78PiaxWgg\/s1600\/School_Closed.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana All government and government-approved private schools across the country will remain closed this week, the Ministry of Education says. The decision was taken at a virtual meeting held with the Education Ministry officials, provincial secretaries and directors of education today. The turnout of students, teachers and principals in schools and the Power &amp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126628\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}