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    Harvey's Havoc On Schools; U.S. Hispanic Enrollment Soars; A Controversial DeVos Hire

    New demographic figures on enrollment; hundreds of thousands of students in limbo while schools recover from Harvey; and more education news of the week.
    by Anya Kamenetz Sep 02, 2017 3 minutes
    Schools are closed and thousands of Houston-area families are living in temporary shelters as the city starts the recovery process after Hurricane Harvey. / Win McNamee / Getty Images

    While the nation has been watching Harvey's devastation in Texas, news continues elsewhere, including education news. We'll catch you up.

    Harvey closes schools for a million students

    School districts across Texas — with over a million schoolchildren — are dealing with the aftermath of Harvey.

    In the Houston Independent School District, the first day of school for 218,000 students, originally planned for Aug. 28, has been pushed back to Sept. 11. Assessments of school buildings are

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