Roughly 30 teachers were absent from New Bedford High School on Tuesday.

School Department Spokesman Jonathan Carvalho says that the large number of absences overwhelmed their current system.

However, he says Acting Headmaster Bernadette Coelho has put a revised system in place to ensure that doesn't happen again.

Carvalho says it doesn't appear that the other schools in New Bedford were significantly impacted.

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