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Social and behavioral scientist Abramson stated it is 'mystifying' that public officials do not imitate Joplin's school reopening plan.
Advice: C.J. Huff encourages school leaders to listen more than talk and to 'take the hero cape off'.
A few weeks before the article's writing, C.J. Huff was planning to travel to central Pennsylvania to meet a superintendent whose school was hit by a tornado in August.
C.J. Huff and his wife founded their own company in 2024 to assist superintendents after disasters.
The floors of the former chicken-processing plant where C.J. Huff works are slanted, a feature from its original construction to allow chicken blood to drain.
C.J. Huff works in a co-working space located in a former chicken-processing plant in downtown Springfield.
Fact: Two decades after Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans's school system reforms prompted academic gains but also deepened some inequities.
Mariah Vazquez's home was destroyed in the Joplin tornado and she entered the new high school when it opened in 2014.
A former student named Eldred stayed in the Joplin area and works at McDonald's.
Fact: In Joplin, educational metrics, including graduation rates, improved after the tornado.
Mariah Vazquez stated she would not be a professional photographer today without the career academy project.
Fact: The acting New Orleans superintendent, Jarvis, resigned less than two years after Hurricane Katrina.
Fact: Josh Barnes, who ran the HHS division that contracted C.J. Huff, left the department in 2019.
Statement: Josh Barnes said school leaders are not adequately able to benefit from the country's collective experience with disasters.
Fact: Lahaina's elementary school, located in a tsunami zone, had been in the same spot since before Hawaii became a state.
Fact: A school-consolidation plan proposed after 2016 flooding in Nicholas County, W.Va., led to years of debate and eventual resignations.
Fact: All four Lahaina school campuses were unusable a month after the 2023 fire, and many students had enrolled elsewhere.
Eight months after Hurricane Maria, some school buildings in Puerto Rico were still being used as shelters and some were missing roofs.
Fact: There are no clear federal guidelines for restoring schools after a disaster.
Hurricane Michael hit Florida in 2018.