Education Correspondent John Merrow
NewsHour Extra

Eight months after Hurricane Katrina destroyed most of one Mississippi school district, students are going to class in trailers, living in tents and trying to rebuild their lives.

Students riding the school bus in Bay Saint Louis, Miss. used to travel past historical churches and scenic beaches, but now they look out their windows at piles of collapsed houses and cement walls spray painted with street names because the signs were washed away.

"We have nothing left on the beachfront, nothing. We had a beautiful beachfront. But everything is gone," explained the bus driver, Dave Taylor, in an April 6 NewsHour broadcast.

 

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