How Houston Got Its Schools Back Online After the Hurricane

Education Week: Lenny Schad has spent the past several years working to turn the 216,000-student Houston school district into a digital leader, setting a national example for how to manage the high-tech transformation of a large urban school system.

But as Hurricane Harvey pounded Houston and its schools last month, the most important step taken by the district’s IT department was decidedly low-tech, according to the district’s chief information technology officer.

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