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Statement: Josh Barnes said school leaders are not adequately able to benefit from the country's collective experience with disasters.
Fact: The acting New Orleans superintendent, Jarvis, resigned less than two years after Hurricane Katrina.
Hurricane Michael hit Florida in 2018.
Eight months after Hurricane Maria, some school buildings in Puerto Rico were still being used as shelters and some were missing roofs.
Fact: All four Lahaina school campuses were unusable a month after the 2023 fire, and many students had enrolled elsewhere.
Fact: The 2023 Lahaina fire melted car batteries, arsenic-treated timber, and coated intact buildings in toxic ash.
Fact: There are no clear federal guidelines for restoring schools after a disaster.
At the time of the article's writing, C.J. Huff was 56 years old.
Following Hurricane Harvey, temporary school buildings in Port Aransas could not open for nearly two months.
In 2017, C.J. Huff began working for the Department of Health and Human Services to conduct 'landscape assessments' of disaster-stricken school districts.
C.J. Huff resigned three weeks before the Joplin school district won a 2015 'future-ready school district' award from the Department of Education.
C.J. Huff was deployed to Texas for his new job just as Hurricane Harvey made landfall in 2017.
The disaster response hub in Texas for Hurricane Harvey held 1,200 experts from various government agencies.
C.J. Huff's office started a blog called 'Real or Rumor' which included a post denying the existence of a $150,000 chandelier in the new high school.
C.J. Huff gained 40 pounds during the period of public backlash in Joplin.
C.J. Huff asked Joplin residents to approve a $62 million local bond for school rebuilding.
A Missouri state audit criticized the Joplin school district's dwindling reserves and procedural opacity.
An online petition demanding C.J. Huff's removal was signed by hundreds of people.
Joplin school enrollment dropped 6.5 percent in the first year after the 2011 tornado.
Former school counselor Tracy Clements stated that FEMA employees positively compared Joplin's disaster response to that of New Orleans.