Some Baton Rouge area schools, including East Baton Rouge Parish public schools, have announced plans to reopen Tuesday after being closed due to freezing weather.
While temperatures are forecast to remain below freezing for much of Tuesday, the worst weather concerns — widespread power outages and road closing — failed to materialize Monday. That has given school leaders the confidence to continue reopening Tuesday as they’d planned.
East Baton Rouge, the largest district in the region, announced it was reopening Tuesday, an all-clear signal that allows an array of private and charter schools to do the same — most of those schools follow the lead of East Baton Rouge when it comes to weather…