Hurricane Harvey made landfall on August 25, 2017, eventually dropping 27 trillion gallons of rain on Texas, causing $75 billion of damage, and killing more than 75 people.

Here’s some essential information on the current state of the recovery effort:

  1. More than 22,000 children are homeless. A KHOU investigation in November found that more than 22,000 children had been homeless in the Houston area since Hurricane Harvey.
  2. Some accountability measures will be put aside for areas affected by Harvey. Students in fifth and eighth grade in hurricane-affected areas will be able to pass to the next grade even if they don’t pass grade-level state assessments, the Houston Chronicle reported.
  3. The Houston Independent School District will rebuild four schools. Houston Independent School District trustees voted to approve a $126 million rebuilding plan to raze four damaged schools built between 1956 and 1966 and rebuild them from scratch.
  4. Full recovery will take years. The hurricane damage is going to affect everything from property values to the tax base for schools, and it will take years for the region to fully recover, he added.

Read the full article on Texas schools by Laura Fay at The 74