Hurricane Recovery Proves Slow Going

Texas, Louisiana districts tally damage from Ike, work to reopen schools.

Dozens of Texas school districts are likely to be closed indefinitely as they struggle to recover from Hurricane Ike, which devastated the Gulf Coast and caused disruption into the Midwest.

District officials in Galveston, Texas, which suffered some of the most significant damage, haven’t yet determined when they will be able to reopen the 8,000-student school system, according to the Texas Education Agency.

Barbara A. Williams, a spokeswoman for the Texas Association of School Boards, said that her group had heard reports of damage, some of it extensive, from...