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Education Plans Unfold in Wake of Katrina Devastation

Even as schools across eastern Louisiana are closed today—some of them indefinitely—local and state officials are laying plans to assure that students have classrooms to go to as soon as possible.

Districts throughout the state that remain open are telling families who have evacuated to their areas to register children in local schools while the regions hit hardest by the storm work to reopen their schools.

Meanwhile, Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco has assigned members of her staff to marshal the state’s resources to help continue education for students in temporary shelters and in districts taking on a wave of long-term evacuees from the floods...