{"id":1576,"date":"2026-01-20T22:30:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T17:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eelam24.com\/?p=1576"},"modified":"2026-01-20T22:30:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T17:00:12","slug":"govt-schools-that-were-closed-for-a-l-exams-to-reopen-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eelam24.com\/?p=1576","title":{"rendered":"Govt Schools that were closed for A\/L exams to reopen today..!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The second phase of the first school term for the 2026 academic year in government and government-approved private schools is scheduled to commence today (21), according to the Ministry of Education.<\/p>\n<p>The first phase of the first term was conducted from January 5 to 9, after which schools were closed from January 10 until today (20) to facilitate the conduct of the G.C.E. Advanced Level (A\/L) examination subjects which were postponed following devastation caused by Cyclone Ditwah.<\/p>\n<p>The Education Ministry noted that the second phase of the first term, which begins tomorrow, will continue until February 13, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Schools will be closed once again from February 14 to March 2 in view of the 2025 G.C.E. Ordinary Level (O\/L) Examination.<\/p>\n<p>However, due to the Ramadan festival, Muslim schools will remain closed for an extended period from February 14 until March 22, the Ministry of Education added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The second phase of the first school term for the 2026 academic year in government and government-approved private schools is scheduled to commence today (21), according to the Ministry of Education. The first phase of the first term was conducted from January 5 to 9, after which schools were closed from January 10 until today [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":409,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local","category-breaking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eelam24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eelam24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eelam24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eelam24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eelam24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1576"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eelam24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1577,"href":"https:\/\/eelam24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1576\/revisions\/1577"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eelam24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eelam24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eelam24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eelam24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}