A commercial truck hit a power pole early Thursday morning, causing an outage at Las Cruces Public Schools’ administrative offices on South Main Street.
The crash happened just before 10 a.m. According to El Paso Electric, crews restored power a few hours later. The outage interrupted Canvas for anyone in the district that had yet to log in. Users who were already on the platform likely did not experience any interruption. Canvas is the learning management system LCPS is using for online instruction.
A message notifying parents, teachers and students of the situation was sent via text message and email just before 2 p.m.
Students went back to school on Aug. 12, working through technology tutorials with teachers and adjusting to the district’s fully online model for instruction. Thursday was the district’s first official day of instruction.
The outage also caused the LCPS website to go offline. At 2:15 p.m., internet services staff anticipated it should be back up within a couple of hours.