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A FEMA official warned C.J. Huff to expect the loss of at least one-third of Joplin's student population due to displacement.
The Joplin school district's wrestling team held meetings in a fireworks store that was empty after the Fourth of July.
Sachetta, now Joplin's superintendent, recalled that staff searched for missing students for a full week after the tornado.
Tests confirmed the presence of asbestos in the ruined school buildings after the tornado.
A Department of Education administrator warned there could be up to 150 student suicides in Joplin after the tornado.
The best lead and zinc ore in the Joplin region was depleted within a few decades.
In 2006 congressional testimony, New Orleans acting superintendent Robin Jarvis called Hurricane Katrina an opportunity to redesign the city's school system.
State officials redesigned the New Orleans public education system to be based on charter schools.
In 2011, C.J. Huff had received no training on post-disaster school operations.
The US lacks centralized federal guidance for school administrators on post-disaster issues like reopening timelines and rebuilding, a situation largely unchanged since 2011.
Joplin became a boomtown at the turn of the 20th century due to the discovery of lead and zinc.
Officials raced to reopen schools in Grand Forks, ND, after a 1997 flood and in Florida during the 2004 hurricane season.
In 2010, social scientist David Abramson released a study titled 'Children as Bellwethers of Recovery'.
David Abramson's study argued, using post-Katrina data, that children's mental health reflects the performance of surrounding systems like government and schools.
David Abramson stated that leaders should 'prioritize kids' after natural disasters.
Dade County superintendent Octavio J. Visiedo told education researchers that opening the schools brought the community back together after Hurricane Andrew.
C.J. Huff was hired in 2017 by the Department of Health and Human Services to advise on disaster relief for schools.
In the years following the 2011 tornado, the Joplin school district experienced minimal enrollment loss and improved its educational outcomes.
In 1992, after Hurricane Andrew, leaders in Dade County, Florida, prioritized rapidly reopening schools.
C.J. Huff's job is to deploy to disaster-stricken school districts to share lessons from restoring Joplin's schools.