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Education Comes to the Forefront in Hurricane AftermathAlthough the full extent of Hurricane Katrina's devastation has yet to be fully assessed, government officials in the states most affected by the category 3 storm are turning their attention to the future - the hundreds of thousands of students displaced due to flooding. While the U.S. Department of Education has already issued a statement granting leeway in NCLB compliance to schools destroyed by the hurricane and those trying to help them, local and state officials are trying to avoid the negative effects of prolonged school closures. Districts in the area that have remained open are enrolling displaced students, and temporary schools are being established in churches and other businesses. "The children in our state are too important, and we're not going to let anything prevent us from moving forward," said Jeanne M. Burns, a Louisiana state education official in an Education Week report. According to a New York Times article, Texas governor Rick Perry invited students from Louisiana and Mississippi to enroll in any one of his state's 7,000 public schools.
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eSchool News issued a list of resources educators can use to help explain the tragic events in the classroom, and issued a request for information on how to help the victims of Hurricane Katrina. This information can be found here. "Educators
Offer Classrooms to Many Displaced Students" "Education
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