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After two-week delay, students return to Houston public schools

Weeks after floodwaters from Hurricane Harvey ravaged Houston, 600,000 students returned to public schools in the area this week.

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A school in the Cypress-Fairbanks Independent School District northwest of Houston still surrounded by water on Wednesday Aug 30, 2017.
Credit: Michael Stravato for The Texas Tribune

Hundreds of thousands of students returned to Houston public schools on Monday, following a two-week delay caused by Hurricane Harvey's floodwaters. Houston Independent School District, the state's largest, opened 243 of its 284 campuses. (Houston Chronicle)

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