For Education Dept., Hurricane Issues Are a Top Priority
The Department of Education’s acting assistant secretary for civil rights has spent part of every week in Mississippi ever since Hurricane Katrina swept across the Gulf Coast on Aug. 29.
After the hurricane, James F. Manning hurried to the area, touring demolished schools, wandering through 200-home housing developments reduced to rubble, and sitting in meetings as Mississippi officials struggled to put their education system back together.
Mr. Manning, who is also the Education Department’s chief of staff for its office of student financial aid, was among the high-level department staff members pressed into hurricane-relief duty following the storm that ravaged school systems in the Gulf Coast region and sent displaced students all over the country. They continued their work in the region after Hurricane Rita struck some of the same...
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