In a report Save the Children Foundation and the National Commission on Children and Disasters released yesterday, Mississippi was one of 12 states that met the four standards that include having an evacuation plan, reunification efforts, meeting needs for special-needs children and having a written disaster procedure in schools.
Hurricane Katrina displaced approximately 200,000 from the Gulf Coast, and 50,000 Louisiana and Mississippi children missed school during the 2005 to 2006 school year, the report states.
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