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Since Hurricane Irma, Only Some Students Have Been Able To Return To School In Miami

Miami-Dade Schools Superintendent Alberto Carvalho discusses the challenges his district faces as 300,000 students try to return to school, many of which are now makeshift shelters or without power.

MICHEL MARTIN, HOST:

Let’s go to Florida now, where officials leading the state’s largest school system – Miami-Dade school district – have just announced that schools will reopen tomorrow for the first time since Hurricane Irma. Now, Miami-Dade isn’t just Florida’s biggest school district, with more than 300,000 students, it’s one of the nation’s biggest. But Miami’s schools have had to do more than educate kids recently.

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