Dive Summary:
- In New York City, 29 schools are still without power, 57 schools are too damaged to open while 16 schools are still being used as shelters.
- Although most schools did reopen on Monday due to widespread sanitization efforts over the weekend, many buildings remained without hot water or heat and students were advised to come to school wearing warm winter clothes.
- 300 out of New Jersey's 589 school districts stayed closed on Monday, with officials saying some schools could be closed "for quite some time.
From the article:
"... Custodians spent Sunday scrubbing and mopping, preparing this makeshift storm shelter in Hell’s Kitchen, which at one point housed some 1,000 displaced men, women and children, for the return to its day job — as the High School of Graphic Communication Arts.
The rush to sanitize the school was just one piece of the sprawling, shifting logistical puzzle, some would say nightmare, as the city’s 1.1 million public school students faced an educational landscape drastically altered by Hurricane Sandy as they returned to school, beginning Monday. The city said that 57 schools were too damaged to reopen, which meant the city had to find new places for their 34,000 students. Eight buildings that normally house 24,000 students currently serve as shelters, and are set to reopen on Wednesday, a target several educators believed unfeasible. It was still unclear whether students and teachers would be sharing their buildings with people now using them for shelter. (Graphic Communication Arts housed people evacuated from Bellevue Hospital Center.) ..."
