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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – Some public schools will reopen next week, more than a month after Hurricane Maria swept over Puerto Rico, though dozens of buildings were destroyed and others are still being used as refugee centers, education officials said Thursday.
The U.S. territory’s 345,000 public school students have been out for more than a month. Education officials say classes will begin at schools in two regions Tuesday — Mayaguez and San Juan. Teachers will arrive a day earlier.
Classes for students in two other regions, Bayamon and Ponce, will begin Oct. 30. It’s not clear yet when schools in the rest of the island’s seven regions will open. About 80 percent of the island is still without power, though 71 percent has water service now.
There are more than 1,100 schools in the system, but at least 70 were too badly damaged to re-open. Roughly 190 are open as community centers, where students can go until noon, and dozens more are housing about 5,000 people who lost their homes in the devastating storm.
Education Secretary Julia Keleher has said she would like to get students back to class as soon as possible, but she is balancing…
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